In this panel, three authors who could be your neighbors present their new YA novels! In The Roof Over Our Heads, former professional actor and improviser Nicole Kronzer tells a story about a theater-loving family who puts on an immersive, interactive play to save their historical Minnesota home. Ari Tison’s debut novel Saints of the Household is a haunting drama about an act of violence in a small Minnesota town, told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems. And in Just Do This One Thing for Me, Minnesota Book Award winner Laura Zimmermann’s second novel, a rule-following daughter tries to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears. Come hear these authors describe the origins of these tales, the work it took to bring them to the page, and the importance of setting. Ages 14+