What was I doing while in Las Vagas?

...meeting and hanging out with amazing authors and teachers!

This is just a small sampling of the amazing authors I met and hung out with while at the NCTE convention in Las Vegas:

Jennifer Holm, author of Babymouse, Squish, and Turtle in Paradise

RJ Palacio, author of Wonder

Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray

Shannon Hale, author of Princess Academy, et al

Blue Balliett, Rebecca Stead, Jo Knowles, Kate Messner, and Jody Feldman

Graphic novelists extraordinaire, Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman

Jonathan Auxier, author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, who not only gave the greatest book talk/yo-yo show ever but he also drew a very special picture for our class after his very special offer:

Check out his amazing yo-yo-show/book talk here.

So yeah, my time in Vegas was pretty awesome!