The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Yoon Ha Lee

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Yoon Ha Lee is a Korean-American science fiction and fantasy writer who received a BA in math from Cornell University and an MA in math education from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing an MA in professional media composition from ThinkSpace. Lee's middle grade space opera Dragon Pearl won the Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature and was a New York Times bestseller. His most recent books are Fox Snare and Moonstorm.

 

Schedule

9:15 am to 10:00 am

State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials Area

Between Two Worlds: Young Adult Fantasy

with Yoon Ha Lee and Brittany N. Williams

(ages 12 and up)

 

10:15 am to 11:00 am

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

 

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm 

State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room

Do You Believe in (Middle Grade) Magic?

with Marti Dumas. Yoon Ha Lee, Jasper Price, and Sarah Tolcser

(ages 8 and up)

 

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

Moonstorm

In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fueled sci-fi adventure—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!

Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that made her an orphan.

Desperate to shake her rebel past, Hwa Young dreams of one day becoming a lancer pilot, an elite group of warriors who fly into battle using the empire’s most advanced tech—giant martial robots. Lancers are powerful, and Hwa Young would do anything to be the strong one for once in her life.

When an attack on their boarding school leaves Hwa Young and her classmates stranded on an imperial space fleet, her dreams quickly become a reality. As it turns out, the fleet is in dire need of pilot candidates, and Hwa Young—along with her brainy best friend Geum, rival Bae, and class clown Seong Su—are quick to volunteer.

But training is nothing like what they expected, and secrets—like the fate of the fleet’s previous lancer squad and hidden truths about the rebellion itself—are stacking up. And when Hwa Young uncovers a conspiracy that puts their entire world at risk, she’s forced to make a choice between her rebel past and an empire she’s no longer sure she can trust.

Rick Riordan Presents: Fox Snare

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a third space opera starring Korean animal spirits by Yoon Ha Lee, author of Dragon Pearl.

While on a mission to cement peace between the Sun Clans and the Thousand Worlds, Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun get stranded on a death planet with Haneul the dragon spirit and Sebin the tiger spirit. To survive, the young cadets will have to rely on all their wits, training, and supernatural abilities. And let's not forget the Dragon Pearl . . .

This thrilling conclusion of the Thousand Worlds trilogy, told in alternating points of view, will put you under a delightful spell as it transports you to worlds full of both danger and wonder.