Join WCDPL to meet bestselling author Traci Sorell and learn more about her work and life experience as a Cherokee Nation citizen on Saturday, March 23 at 10:00 am! Traci has written numerous children’s, middle grade, and young adult fiction, including Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer.

Best-selling author Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Her first five books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association. Other accolades include Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, International Literacy Association's Social Justice Literature Award Winner, Reading The West’s Picture Book Winner, and many Best-of and Notables lists. In 2023, she shares Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series, a Kirkus Reviews starred nonfiction picture book biography illustrated by Arigon Starr, and Mascot, a middle grade fiction novel-in-verse co-authored with Charles Waters.

During the program, there will be a book discussion followed by a Q&A and a book signing. The Mazza Museum will have a selection of Traci's books available for purchase. WBGU-PBS will be providing copies of Classified to the first 100 people at this event.

This program is presented in partnership with Bowling Green State University's In the Round Series. If you're not able to attend this event event, join BGSU as they host Traci on Friday, March 22 at 5:30 pm in Olscamp 101. Find out more information about BGSU's event here.