Author Talk & Book Signing with Sharon Flake: Hattie Mae Begins Again

Join 18 August Ave for an in-person evening with celebrated author Sharon Flake as we celebrate the release of Hattie Mae Begins Again.

This special community event will include a reading, conversation, and book signing. Families, educators, and young readers are warmly welcome.

Three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author, Sharon G. Flake is coming to Uncle Bobbie's to sign copies of her new book, Hattie Mae Begins Again.

This is the perfect event to bring your young reader to!

Each ticket comes with a copy of Hattie Mae Begins Again.

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About the author:

Sharon G. Flake is best known for her ground-breaking novel The Skin I'm In

which changed the way many Black girls viewed themselves. Considered a modern classic, this best-selling novel is used in classrooms worldwide and studied by experts in the field of education and literature. Flake is the best-selling author of over a dozen books, with more than 1.5 million in print on six continents. She has won numerous awards and recognition by the pillars in the publishing industry, including having her work named a Kirk’s Prize finalist. Her books continue to empower and shine light on teens and communities often underrepresented in publishing.

About the Book:

From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author of The Skin I’m Incomes a poignant story about a southern girl far from home at an elite girls boarding school in the north, who must find the courage to be herself and to dream of a brighter future, set against the backdrop of the great migration in South Philly.

You can be what you want in life.
Climb as high as you wish.
Nothing can stop you,
not even pedigree.

Hattie Mae is from Seed County, North Carolina. She knows hard work: milking cows, plucking chickens, minding the garden. Her hands are made for manual labor, her feet for dirt—that is, according to Lisa and some of the girls at Miss Abigail’s School for Exceptional Young Ladies in Philadelphia. In their eyes, Hattie Mae will never break into upper society and is unworthy of becoming a doctor or a lawyer.

Though Hattie Mae sticks out like a sore thumb and has more in common with the hundreds of Black folks pouring into the city looking for better opportunities during the Great Migration, she knows that she belongs. She just has to prove it to the rest of the girls—and maybe even to herself.

A moving coming-of-age story about finding the courage to be yourself, chasing your dreams, and lending a hand to others along the way.

Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7

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Doors open at event start

Each ticket comes with a copy of Hattie Mae Begins Again.

All sales are final.

Additional books can be purchased in advance or on-site while supplies last.

People18 years and older need their own ticket

Space is limited. Early RSVP strongly encouraged. Light refreshment will be provided.