Montclair School Will Host R.L. Stine, Marc Brown: Scholastic Book Fair 2017

MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) will again be the site of the “largest annual Scholastic Book Fair in the country” from Nov. 5 to 8. This year, the book fair is themed around the Wild West, encouraging everyone to “Saddle up and Read!”

The tri-campus annual event, organized by the Parents’ Association of MKA, will be open to the general public on Nov. 5 for a “Sunday Spectacular” event.

During the Sunday Spectacular at the MKA Middle School campus, 201 Valley Road in Montclair, the public is invited to take part in a celebrity author event featuring R.L. Stine and Marc Brown, who will speak about their new book, “Mary McScary,” at 2 p.m.

Additional confirmed authors for the event include Peter Reynolds, Brad Meltzer, Peter Brown, Jordan Sonnenblick, Karuna Riazi, and Francisco X. Stork.

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Since l996, some of the world's most respected authors have visited the Book Fair, including J. K. Rowling (the only school visit she made on her first-ever Harry Potter book tour to the U.S.), Carl Hiaasen, Henry Winkler, Jerry Spinelli, Jack Gantos, Mary Pope Osborn, Paula Danziger, Mike Lupica, Jon Scieszka, Ishmael Beah, Luong Ung, Stephen Colbert, James Patterson and Sarah Culberson. In 2003, the MKA Book Fair was the venue used by Madonna to launch her children's book “Mr. Peabody's Apples.”

School officials said that the book fair has become a vehicle for tri-campus community building, teacher appreciation efforts and outreach to MKA's partner charter schools in Newark, Kipp/TEAM, SPARK and RISE Academies.

For more information, contact Talia Selove, Director of Annual Giving & PAMKA Liaison at tselove@mka.org or 973-842-2769.

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