Author Karen Pavlicin-Fragnito will sign copies of her multiple-award-winning children's novel Summer of Courage at a celebration of Minnesota Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Published and Listed authors and illustrators (SCBWI-PAL), Mon., Dec. 15, 2014, 7 - 9 PM, in the atrium of the University of Minnesota's Elmer L. Anderson Library.