YA authors to highlight special ODL tour in five state cities this fall; BOB named as official bookseller

        Best of Books has been named as the official bookseller for the Oklahoma Department of Libraries' Double R Author Tour featuring YA authors Sonia Gensler and Tara Hudson this October.
         The ODL received a four-year grant from The Reading Trust to place recent children's and Young Adult books that have been honored as Oklahoma Book Award medalists or finalists in libraries across the state. Also, as part of the grant, ODL will be the host of a tour each fall of authors who have been Oklahoma Book Award medalists or finalists in the Childrens'/YA category.
          Other sponsors of Double R, also known as the Reading Round-up, will be The Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma and the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book.             



Sonia Gensler

Tara Hudson

             YA authors Sonia Gensler and Tara Hudson will be visiting five Oklahoma communities, said William R. Young, ODL's public information manager. In each community, the two authors will visit a local school during the afternoon and the public library in the evening.
           Sonia will also be signing her new book Ghostlight at noon Aug. 22 at Best of Books.
            In October, the five communities chosen for the first year of Double R tour and the dates of the author visits are:         
                  -- Sulphur, Oct. 7.

              -- Prague, Oct. 21.

              -- Blanchard, Oct. 22.

              -- Piedmont, Oct. 27.

              -- Lawton, Oct. 29.

                Here are Sonia's and Tara's books for the October tour:

 Sonia Gensler:

              -- Ghostlight (Available Aug. 4)

              -- The Revenant (Oklahoma Book Award Winner) (Will be placed in public libraries.)

              -- The Dark Between (Oklahoma Book Award Finalist)  (Will be placed in public libraries.)

 

             

 

 

           

Tara Hudson:

              -- Elegy (Will be placed in public libraries.)

              -- Arise (Oklahoma Book Award Finalist) (Will be placed in public libraries.) 

               -- Hereafter (Oklahoma Book Award Finalist)  (Will be placed in public libraries.)