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YALLStayHome with Penguin Teen!

We are SO ready for the virtual #YALLStayHome festival and all the giveaways, panels, and fun it entails! Scroll down to see what’s happening at the Penguin Teen virtual booth this weekend.

 

SATURDAY, 4/25

 

GIVEAWAYS

 

REC-A-READS GIVEAWAY

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Enter for a chance to win an E-ARC of one of six hotly anticipated 2020 titles!

Enter here!

 

BOOK CLUB GIVEAWAY

Enter to win our book club picks, Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf by Hayley Krischer and How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi!

 

Click here to enter to win an E-ARC of Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf.

Twitter Sweeps Ali

 

Click here to enter to win an E-ARC of How It All Blew Up.

Twitter Sweeps Arvin

 

SABAA TAHIR VIRTUAL GROUP CHAT GIVEAWAY

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Win your way into an exclusive virtual group chat with Sabaa Tahir!

Click here to enter

 

 

SPRING 2021 EXCLUSIVE EARLY PREVIEW GIVEAWAY

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Enter to win an E-ARC bundle of two of 2021’s most anticipated titles, House of Hollow by Krystal M. Sutherland and A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen!

Click here to enter!

 

JO & LAURIE GIVEAWAY

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Enter to win the Jo & Laurie prize pack!

Click here to enter

 

PANELS & SPECIAL EVENTS

9:00 AM PDT

YALLStayHome Preview Live Show + Special Guest!

Penguin Teen Live Chat!

Join Penguin Teen @penguinteen on Instagram Live for YALLStayHome preview chat with special guest Arvin Ahmadi!

 

10:00 AM PDT

Opening Ceremony + Teanote AM Keynote

Festival Founders, Melissa de la Cruz & Margaret Stohl, open the festival and talk all things Little Women. They will be joined by longtime friend Raphael Simon AKA Pseudonymous Bosch (who furtively read Little Women in fourth grade, hidden under the cover of a Jack London book) as moderator of the keynote.

Click here to register and read an excerpt of their new book Jo & Laurie here!

 

 

11:00 AM PDT

Creativity in the Time of Corona

Authors have been working from home in pajamas for centuries. Who better to give some insight to the rest of us stuck at home?

Moderated by Nicola Yoon with Alexandra Bracken, Simone Elkeles, Sarah Enni, Sam Maggs, and David Yoon

Click here to register

 

12:00 PM PDT

Modern Magic Worldbuilding

In 2020, where do you begin and what do you steal from the real world, especially when the real world is a garbage fire?

Moderated by Ransom Riggs with Melissa Albert, Adalyn Grace, Francesca Flores, Frances Hardinge, Margaret Rogerson, and Tracy Wolff

Click here to register

 

SUNDAY, 4/26

 

 

PANELS & SPECIAL EVENTS

 

9:00 AM PDT

Super Fake Love Song Live Show with David Yoon!

Penguin Teen Live Chat!

Tune in (no pun intended) on Instagram Live @penguinteen for the Super Fake Love Song Music Master Showdown!

 

1:00 PM PDT

Worldbuilding Beyond Wikipedia

GIVEAWAY: Early excerpt of THE DAMNED

How do you do the research to write historical fiction, and when do you have to let the history books go and start your own world building?

Moderated by Roshani Chokshi with Renée Ahdieh, Gwenda Bond, Jennifer Donnelly, Marie Lu, and Bethany C. Morrow

Click here to register

 

4:00 PM PDT

Writing Empathy

GIVEAWAY: 15 Finished Copies of A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen

Authors discuss the process of writing inclusively, empathetically, and generally creating a character who is also a person.

Moderated by Tahereh Mafi with Kacen Callender, Dhonielle Clayton, Charlotte Nicole Davis, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Zan Romanoff, and Adam Silvera

Click here to register

Psst! Start reading LOOK by Zan Romanoff here after you catch the panel!

 

 

Downloadables!

Don’t forget to download your Jo & Laurie swag!

 

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Click here to download your Jo & Laurie bookmark!

 

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Click here to download your Jo & Laurie desktop background!

Don’t forget your YALLStayHome lockscreens!

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Get your Zoom backgrounds here!

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Love An Ember in the Ashes? Get your posters here!

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