Designed to be an essential road map to the event, the guide aims to help library professionals navigate the more than 1,000 booths and the hundreds of author signings scheduled throughout the weekend. It includes publishers’ booth numbers, times and locations of book signings both in booths and in autograph areas, a list of ARC and book giveaways, and the buzz on a few hot new titles being featured this year.

The guide also includes previews and descriptions of all the new children’s and young adult book releases, making it a resource for non-attendees as well.

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First up, one of my favorite events every year, the Editors’ Buzz panel (Monday, 4:15pm). This is the chance for six editors to introduce the one upcoming book about which they are most excited. (Last year’s event, for example, included The Night Circus and Running the Rift.) This year’s titles with potential teen appeal:

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu (Hogarth, Sept.). The author is a National Book Foundation “5 under 35″ honoree. Her novel is about girls coming of age in the Israeli Defense Forces.

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner (Simon & Schuster, July). A novel told by a young girl coming of age among the Cambodian killing fields, fighting for survival.

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