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Amber McBride

Authors at the Library

2025-01-31 10:00:00 2025-01-31 11:00:00 America/New_York Amber McBride Award-winning author Amber McBride talks to teens about her Young Adult books. Main Library - Reading Room

Friday, January 31
10:00am - 11:00am

Add to Calendar 2025-01-31 10:00:00 2025-01-31 11:00:00 America/New_York Amber McBride Award-winning author Amber McBride talks to teens about her Young Adult books. Main Library - Reading Room

Main Library

Reading Room

Award-winning author Amber McBride talks to teens about her Young Adult books.

Authors at the Library
with Amber McBride

Friday, Jan. 31 | 10-11 a.m.

Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.
(Reading Room – Second Floor)

Amber McBride is the author of Me (Moth), a young adult novel that was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and won the 2022 Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Her work has been published in Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts, among other publications. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.

Read more about the author here.

Classes and school groups are pre-registered for this event. The event is free to the public but due to limited seating registration is requested.

Columbus Metropolitan Library offers events and programs for customers of all ages. Battelle’s generous gift to the Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation helps make it possible for the library to host additional author talks and programs for kids and teens that encourage a lifelong love of reading. Our goal is to host diverse, nationally recognized authors at Main Library. 

AGE GROUP: | 12 - 17 years |

EVENT TYPE: | Teen | Authors at the Library | Author Visit |

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