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LGBT Giving Circle

LGBT Giving Circle at the Rochester Area Community Foundation grant to support Author Nina LaCour.

Now a United Way Donor Designation Eligible Agency

Donate to Teen Book Fest through your company’s annual United Way Campaign. Donor Designation #3338.

About TBF

Teens can sometimes be overlooked in libraries, with much attention, money, and resources given to children and adults. Somewhat caught in the middle of budgetary constraints, this is our opportunity to dedicate an event to teens, to encourage their reading, and to demonstrate their value to and within our communities. And…to have fun!

Connect

Connect and encourage interaction between teen readers, aspiring writers, and established, award-winning authors.

Promote

Support and celebrate recreational teen reading, and promote spreading the enjoyment of reading to others.

Educate

Entertain, educate, and enrich teens and other Festival participants.

Featured Authors

Margaret Peterson Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson's books are coming soon!

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Author of many books, including "The Inexplicable Logic of My Life (Released 3/17)" and "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Universe".

Featured Books

Song of the Lioness (Book 1): Alanna: The First Adventure

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, and learns many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

By Tamora Pierce
Burned

It all started with a dream. Nothing exceptional, just a typical fantasy about a boy, the kind of dream that most teen girls experience. But Pattyn Von Stratten is not like most teen girls. Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, a simple dream may not be exactly a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation. It's with a real boy...

By Ellen Hopkins

2200 Expected Teens for 2017

Some people claim that teens don’t read! TBF proves them all wrong. Come experience what authors have started calling the Rock Concert of Teen Lit!

300 Volunteers

TBF could not happen without hundreds of volunteers helping to make the day run smoothly. Each year we rely on the energy of over 200 teen and 100 adult volunteers. We have to come call this TBF...

26 Awesome Author Attendees

We have authors coming in from all over the world! TBF has gone international!

12 Years in the Making

And still FREE to attend!