Minnesota Book Award winner Kate Allen (The Line Tender, 2020) moderated a discussion between all four 2021 finalists in the competitive Middle Grade Literature category:
Drew Brockington, author of CatStronauts: Digital Disaster (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
Anika Fajardo, author of What if a Fish (Simon & Schuster)
Margi Preus, author of The Littlest Voyageur [illustrated by Cheryl Pilgrim] (Margaret Ferguson Books/Penguin Random House)
Kurtis Scaletta, author of Lukezilla Beats the Game [illustrated by David Sossella] (Capstone Editions)
The Minnesota Book Awards program is sponsored by Education Minnesota. Education Minnesota is also generously, specifically sponsoring the Middle Grade Literature category in 2021.