# 2022 National Book Festival: You'll Be Okay with Johnnie Christmas and Kat Fajardo

Will kids ever be allowed to be in charge of their own lives? Johnie Christmas and Kat Fajardo talk about their new graphic novels that try to find the answer. "Swim Team" features Bree, a girl starting middle school forced to take a dreaded elective. "Miss Quinces" follows Sue, a girl whose summer is now heavy with her family's expectations.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2022
- By: National Book Festival (u.s.)
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698268/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024698268?play=1)