KidsLIVE: Launch Party for Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi!

Date and Time
August 30, 2016
For ages 13 to 18 years
Event Details

Book cover for FurhtermoreCELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF FURTHERMORE WITH AUTHOR TAHEREH MAFI!

The New York Public Library and Books of Wonder invite you to the Launch Party for Furthermore with New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi! Mafi will be in conversation with author Ransom Riggs, followed by a Q&A. With cupcakes, a temporary tattoo artist, and more. This is one party you won't want to miss!

To join the signing line, you MUST purchase a copy of Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi from Books of Wonder at the NYPL the evening of the event. Ransom Riggs will not be signing but signed copies of his books will be available for purchase. To reserve your FREE ticket for the event, please visit Books of Wonder's Eventbrite Event Page.

Description: The bestselling author of the Shatter Me series takes readers beyond the limits of their imagination in this captivating new middle grade adventure where color is currency, adventure is inevitable, and friendship is found in the most unexpected places.

There are only three things that matter to 12-year-old Alice Alexis Queensmeadow: Mother, who wouldn’t miss her; magic and color, which seem to elude her; and Father, who always loved her. The day Father disappears from Ferenwood he takes nothing but a ruler with him. But it’s been almost three years since then, and Alice is determined to find him. She loves her father even more than she loves adventure, and she’s about to embark on one to find the other.

But bringing Father home is no small matter. In order to find him she’ll have to travel through the mythical, dangerous land of Furthermore, where down can be up, paper is alive, and left can be both right and very, very wrong. Her only companion is a boy named Oliver whose own magical ability is based in lies and deceit—and with a liar by her side in a land where nothing is as it seems, it will take all of Alice’s wits (and every limb she’s got) to find Father and return home to Ferenwood in one piece. On her quest to find Father, Alice must first find herself—and hold fast to the magic of love in the face of loss.

Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series. She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, fellow author, Ransom Riggs. She can usually be found over caffeinated and stuck in a book.

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