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Havana and Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community

Sunday, November 15, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - Sunday, November 22, 2015 @ 1:30 pm EST

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. Carl Juste’s compelling and dynamic images from Haiti and Cuba take over the walls at The Swamp!  A Haitian-born American who grew up in Miami, and whose mother was born and spent her childhood in Santiago de Cuba, Juste uses his unique perspective to aim his lens at the space where the metaphorical borders ...

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4:00 am
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FUN ROOM: Healthy Bodies, Happy Kids

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am EST

Want to get healthy and stay that way? You've come to the right place! Learn how to get rid of germs, especially on your teeth! You'll want to show those pearly whites after dental hygienists and their puppets teach you the right way to brush. Learn about good nutrition so you can grow healthy and strong!   Activities all weekend ...

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FUN ROOM: One World, Many Stories

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am EST

Bring your imaginary passports as we take a literary journey to Mexico, India and Vietnam. Travel with us to Italy, England, Morocco and beyond! Explore foreign cultures through storytime, folk tales, myths, and plays! Put what you’ve learned to work and create Calavera masks, construct dioramas of the Italian city of Calabria, fashion Moroccan lanterns, and more! Featured books: Just a ...

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FUN ROOM: Science Fair

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am EST

Discover the wonders of our great planet (and beyond!) with the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Search for buried fossils. Plant a take-home plant from native seeds. Dive into a squid dissection. Soar through space and construct a comet, and more! Featured books: Digging Up Dinosaurs, I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean and There’s No Place Like Space! ...

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FUN ROOM: The Paintbox

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am EST

Create a work of art inspired by…books! ALL kinds of books! Enter a magical land where everyone is an author, illustrator, and bookmaker — including you.  Write your fantastic story, make the pages come alive with your illustrations and bind your very own original book.  Adopt a book from our “Book Mountain” and turn it into something new. All you need ...

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FUN ROOM: The Rhythm Factory

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am EST

Sing-a-long, move and groove! Try out instruments from around the world in the musical corner. Learn about different musical instruments and families. Swing and sway to the rhythms of Latin, jazz, and other styles of music. Rock-out and bang your very own percussion instrument. Featured books: Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin, Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, and My Name ...

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FUN ROOM: Tot Time Play and Learn

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am EST

Babies, caregivers, and toddlers play and learn together with hands-on activities for children ages 0-3. Help a bird take a bath. Build and destroy a block tower. Use finger paint to make new colors. Count kisses and play Simon Says. Dress up and dance like an animal, try on a baby mustache, and more! Siblings as old as five are ...

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4:30 am
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Author Conor McCreery

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:30 am EST

The world's most famous detective meets the world's most famous magician... and death ensues, in Sherlock Holmes vs. Harry Houdini 

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Author Victoria Aveyard

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:30 am EST

The Red Queen is a sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's palace.

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Authors Congressman John Lewis, and Andrew Aydin

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:30 am EST

Get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement in graphic novel form with March: Book Two.  

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National Book Foundation presents the Teen Press Conference

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:30 am EST

Sponsored by Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation. High school students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools act as journalists, asking questions to the Finalists for the 2015 National Book Award in Young People's Literature. Since 1998, the Teen Press Conference has taken place at various literary landmarks in New York, including the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black ...

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5:00 am
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Author Corey Ann Haydu

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:00 am EST

Realism blends with fantasy in the beautiful and mysterious family story, Rules for Stealing Stars.

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Author Kate Schatz

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:00 am EST

Rad American Women A-Z highlights the artists and abolitionists, scientists and suffragettes, rock stars, rabble-rousers, and agents of change who’ve helped shape our history.

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Author Peter Kujawinski

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:00 am EST

In this dark fantasy thriller, sunrise only appears once every 28 years on Marin Island. The tide rolls out and something else rolls in with Nightfall.

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Author Ryan Graudin

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:00 am EST

Follow the adventures of courageous Yael, a skin-shifter and victim of painful human experimentation, as she joins a motorcycle race to seek the ultimate revenge in Wolf by Wolf.

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Free

Pirates! A Show

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:00 am EST

Ahoy, mateys! Watch the Miami Children’s Museum’s pirate show or walk the plank! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

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5:30 am
Free

Author Maris Wicks

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:30 am EST

Your master of ceremonies, dressed as a skeleton, leads you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system in our bodies, in Human Body Theater!

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5:45 am
Free

Momentum Dance Company

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 5:45 am EST

Momentum Dance Company presents The Magic Toy Shop. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

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6:00 am
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Author Dav Pilkey

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:00 am EST

Can George and Harold — along with their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold — defeat the nasty gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, as he uses mind control to make perfect students? Find out in Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot.

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Author Gitty Daneshvari

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:00 am EST

Are you ordinary? Perfect! Join the adventures of The League of Unexceptional Children, a covert network that uses the nation's most average, normal, and utterly unexceptional children as spies.

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Free

Author Ian Lendler

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:00 am EST

The zoo is nice and ordinary — until the gates shut at night and the animals come out of their cages to perform Shakespeare’s works! Grab your seat for The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Romeo and Juliet.

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Author Max Brallier

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:00 am EST

Join Jack, tree-house dweller and Apocalypse survivor, as he builds a team to fight against the Zombies, Winged Wretches, and Vine Thingies for an ultimate showdown with the monster known as Blarg, in The Last Kids on Earth.

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6:30 am
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Author Ali Benjamin

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:30 am EST

Sponsored by C-Span2. Convinced that the true cause of her friend’s death was a rare jellyfish sting, Suzy crafts a plan to prove her theory, in The Thing About Jellyfish. Sponsored by

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Author Melissa De La Cruz

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:30 am EST

After all the evil villains were banished to The Isle of The Lost, Maleficent’s daughter, Mal, sets out on a quest to capture the Dragon’s Eye and discovers that being good ain’t so bad, even if you come from an evil family tree.

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Author Michael Buckley

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:30 am EST

Ocean-dwelling warriors take to land and humanity’s initial wonder turns to paranoia and violence. But are these “others” the real enemy? Find out in Michael Buckley’s Undertow.

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Author Nicholas Gannon

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:30 am EST

Set out with Archer B. Helmsley as he enlists friends to help him rescue his grandparents from being stuck on an iceberg, in the beautifully imaginative debut novel The Doldrums.

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Havana and Haiti: Reshaping the New Americas and the World

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:30 am EST

Sponsored by the Green Family Foundation. Join Iris Photocollective-co-founder Carl Juste, project director Luis Rios and a panel of photojournalists and writers as they discuss Havana and Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community, a book of photographs and essays. Sponsored by 

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National Geographic Kids Quiz

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:30 am EST

Show what you know about endangered animals in the Geo-Party Quiz Show with National Geographic Kids! All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

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6:45 am
Free

Author Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 6:45 am EST

Cassie Arroyo discovers she is part of a secret ancient bloodline and heads out on a fast-paced adventure to find The Spear of Destiny and wield its power to help save her father — and her bloodline — in Moving Target.

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7:15 am
Free

Flipside Kings

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 7:15 am EST

Breaking and popping with Miami's b-boy dance crew Flipside Kings. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

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7:30 am
Free

Author George O’Connor

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 7:30 am EST

The myth continues in the tenth year of the fabled Trojan War, where bloodthirsty Ares, god of war, and his clever and powerful sister, Athena, go head-to-head, in Ares: Bringer of War.

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Author Margi Preus

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 7:30 am EST

History and adventure combine in The Bamboo Sword, a tale of young Yoshi, who, by a stroke of fate crosses paths with the American cabin boy Jack as they set out on a grand adventure to get Jack back to his ship before he is discovered by the shogun’s samurai.

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Author Paul Durham

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 7:30 am EST

Rye O'Chanter must lead the charge in defending the Isle of Pest as the Fork-Tongue Charmers, bitterest rivals of The Luck Uglies, bring the battle to the island shore, in The Luck Uglies #2: Fork-Tongue Charmers.

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Author Ridley Pearson

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 7:30 am EST

The Kingdom Keepers have defeated the Overtakers and saved Disneyland from destruction. But why did their mentor leave them one last puzzle to decipher? Find out in Kingdom Keepers: The Return (Book One Disney Lands).

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8:00 am
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Author David Teague

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 8:00 am EST

Sponsored by C-Span2. When thirteen-year-olds Aaron and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole in Connect the Stars. Sponsored by

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Author Peter Lerangis

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 8:00 am EST

Heroes confront gods, battles are reawakened, and Jack McKinley and his friends face down their destiny and their greatest challenge yet, in Seven Wonders Book 4: The Curse of the King.

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Authors Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach & Alan Zweibel

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 8:00 am EST

A hilarious trio come together for a rip-roaring good time with time-traveling messages to Ben Franklin, hilarious fast-paced adventures in the nation’s capital, epic embarrassing moments, and field trips gone wrong in Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in My. . . and The Worst Class Trip Ever.

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Carrie Sue Ayvar

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 8:00 am EST

Storytelling in English and Spanish with Carrie Sue Ayvar. All performances on the Once Upon a Time Children's Stage are sponsored by

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1:00 pm
$15 Ticket Required

An Evening With the National Book Awards Winners, Finalists, and Longlisted Authors

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 1:00 pm EST

Sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For the second year in a row, the Book Fair, in partnership with the National Book Foundation and with the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, welcomes the Finalists and Winners of the prestigious National Book Foundation's National Book Awards. Previous winners of the Award-including William Carlos Williams, Joyce Carol ...

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2:00 pm
Free

Entre historias y canciones: encuentro con Cristina Rebull

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 2:00 pm EST

Cristina Rebull stitches together literature and music through storytelling, songs, and anecdotes. En la sesión inaugural del II Seminario de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, organizado por la Fundación Cuatrogatos y Miami Book Fair, la autora, cantante y actriz cubana presenta su libro Por culpa de una S (Editorial Norma), Premio Latinoamericano Norma de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil 2015. Escritora de ...

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Miami Improv Showcase

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 2:00 pm EST

Come watch some of the best improv troupes in South Florida turn your prompts into on-the-fly magic. Your belly will ache with laughter!

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4:00 pm
Free

Live Music: Spam All-Stars

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 4:00 pm EST

Dance all night with the Spam All-Stars, hailed as the pioneers of Miami fusion, as they blend improvisational electronic elements and turntables with latin, funk, hip hop and dub to create what they call an electronic descarga.

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