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General Meeting, February 8, 2019

Business Meeting at 8:00 pm, Speaker Katherine Locke at 9:00 pm.

International House - 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA (Second Floor, Asia-Africa Room)

Speaker Katherine Locke

Katherine Locke lives and writes in Philadelphia, PA where she is ruled by her feline overlords and her addiction to chai lattes. Her debut Young Adult novel, The Girl with the Red Balloon, was a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book from the Association of Jewish Libraries and a 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book from the Pennsylvania Library Association. The Girl with the Red Balloon is about a teenage girl from our time who accidentally time-travels (by way of a magical red balloon) to 1988 East Berlin. There she's swept up in a conspiracy of history and magic connected to how her grandfather escaped a death camp in 1942.

The companion novel, The Spy with the Red Balloon, released in October 2018 and was one of Tablet Magazine's Best Jewish Children's Books of 2018. This book takes place 45 years before the first book when a brother and sister are recruited to use magic on the Manhattan Project. A spy, using magic, threatens both of their missions as they race to stop Hitler from acquiring a nuclear weapon. In Katherine's work, she aims to explore history and family stories through the lens of science fiction and fantasy, creating space and shedding light on shadowy corners of the recent past.

In addition to her novels, Katherine contributed a short story to the Young Adult anthology, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, which received multiple starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild selection. Katherine is a co-editor and contributor to the forthcoming anthology, It's A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes and Other Jewish Stories. She is also the author of the District Ballet series. She writes for all ages and remains fascinated by that which she cannot do: ballet, magic, and time-travel. Katherine can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @bibliogato and on the web at KatherineLockeBooks.com

Upcoming Meetings

General Meetings

General Meetings are open to the public and are held at International House, 3701 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA, at 8:00 p.m.; or at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA at 8:00 p.m.

Social gathering begins at 7:30 p.m.
The Business Meeting begins at 8:00 p.m.

The Program usually begins at 9:00 p.m.

Date	Speaker or Program	Location
February 8, 2019	Katherine Locke	International House
March 8, 2019	Josiah Bancroft	The Rotunda
April 12, 2019		The Rotunda
May 17, 2019		International House
June 14, 2019		International House

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