Meg Medina, award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, has been selected as 2024 National Library Week honorary chair. Medina’s middle-grade novel Merci Suárez Changes Gears received the 2019 Newbery Medal, and her young adult novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass received the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award. National Library Week annually celebrates the indispensable role of libraries and library workers in schools and communities. In 2024, the event will be held April 7–13, with the theme “Ready, Set, Library!”
ALA Communications, Marketing, and Media Relations Office, Nov. 30