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Melina Alipio

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2025 Melina Alipio

A student at Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, this is Melina Alipio’s debut illustrated children’s book. Follow her on Instagram - @melinaa_artz.

 

Schedule

9:00 am to 9:30 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent C
Craziest Cajun Football Tale
Gary and Melinda Alipio
(ages 7 to 13)

9:45 am to 10:30 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Craziest Cajun Football Tale

"...a fun and engaging read for football fans and realistic fiction fans alike." - Kirkus Reviews

An inspiring, page-turner perfect for young readers 7 to 13 years old, and for sports and cheer fans of all ages.

Football. Middle School. A Team Against All Odds.

Twelve year-old Hatcher has big football dreams. He wants to be a play-calling star. A legend. So, he joins a city youth team with the hopes of designing plays to win a championship. But when his inability to read plays correctly gets him cut to the B-team—a group of misfits—his dream of winning turns to surviving a season of Cajun craziness.

Enter cousin Heatha, who, forced to live with them, discovers Hatcher's real obstacle­—he has dyslexia. How can latch-key kids Hatcher and Heatha work together to defy the odds?