Event

Shannon Hale with LeUyen Pham

Tuesday, May 2, 2017
4:00 p.m.

Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Join us to meet Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times-bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham who have joined forces in this graphic novel, Real Friends, about how hard it is to find your real friends and why it's worth the journey.

Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends called The Group. Everyone in The Group wants to be Jen's #1, and some girls would do anything to stay on top . . . even if it means bullying others. Now every day is like a roller coaster for Shannon. Will she and Adrienne stay friends? Can she stand up for herself? And is she in The Group or out?

"Real Friends made me laugh, broke my heart, and gave me hope. This book is SO GOOD. SO MANY FEELS." Gene Luen Yang, New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award Finalist author of American Born Chinese

Shannon Hale is the New York Times-bestselling author of the Newbery Honor winner Princess Academy, multiple award-winning Book of a Thousand Days, Dangerous, the award-winning Books of Bayern series, and the first four Ever After High books. Her novel for adults, Austenland, was made into a movie starring Keri Russell. She co-wrote the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack, The Princess in Black series and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Meets World with her husband, Dean Hale.

LeUyen Pham is the prolific and bestselling illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times-bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series by Julianne Moore, Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio, Gods Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and The Princess in Black series. Pham has also written and illustrated her own works, including All the Things I Love About You, Big Sister, Little Sister, and The Bear Who Wasn't There.