Secrets & Youth: E. Lockhart & Courtney Summers

E. Lockhart, Courtney Summers and Amanda Halfpenny

Secrets & Youth: E. Lockhart & Courtney Summers

E. Lockhart, Courtney Summers and Amanda Halfpenny

12:30pm

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Celebrated YA authors E. Lockhart and Courtney Summers join in conversation to discuss their latest books for teens and adults alike. American author Lockhart presents her prequel to the hugely successful We Were Liars, which leads readers 27 years back to another generation of Sinclair family secrets and betrayals on their private island in New England. Canadian author and Edgar Award-winner Summers presents The Project, about an aspiring young journalist seeking to reconnect with her estranged sister, but is thrown off course when a mysterious community and its charming leader stand in her way.

Interviewer: Amanda Halfpenny

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 5 at 12:30pm ET
Where: Outdoor Stage on Harbourfront Centre’s West Lawn
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Celebrated YA authors E. Lockhart and Courtney Summers join in conversation to discuss their latest books for teens and adults alike. American author Lockhart presents her prequel to the hugely successful We Were Liars, which leads readers 27 years back to another generation of Sinclair family secrets and betrayals on their private island in New England. Canadian author and Edgar Award-winner Summers presents The Project, about an aspiring young journalist seeking to reconnect with her estranged sister, but is thrown off course when a mysterious community and its charming leader stand in her way.

Interviewer: Amanda Halfpenny

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: June 5 at 12:30pm ET
Where: Outdoor Stage on Harbourfront Centre’s West Lawn
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $16.50 – Regular; $12.50 – Youth; or Get the All-Access Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Featured Authors

E. Lockhart
E. (Emily) Lockhart is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Liars. She also invented a superhero for DC Comics. Her books include Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero; Again Again; The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, a National Book Award Finalist and a Printz Honor Book; and Genuine Fraud, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Her newest book is Family of Liars, a prequel to We Were Liars.

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Courtney Summers
Courtney Summers is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of several novels for young adults, including Cracked Up to Be, All the Rage and Sadie. Her work has been released to multiple starred reviews, received numerous awards and honours—including the Edgar Award, John Spray Mystery Award, Cybils Award and Odyssey Award—and has been recognized by many library, 'Best Of' and Readers' Choice lists. She lives and writes in Canada.

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Amanda Halfpenny
Amanda Halfpenny is the Events and Program Coordinator for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. She graduated with a BA in Literature from Université Laval and then launched her career at La Maison Anglaise et Internationale, a small but mighty independent bookstore in Quebec City. She then completed her Masters in Library and Information Studies at McGill University and has worked in both official languages in public and school libraries and as a professor at the School of English and Liberal Studies at Seneca College. She is also married to a librarian and is a parent to two adorable book-loving children.

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12:30pm

Sunday, June 5

What to read

Family of Liars by , The Project by ,
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