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

Kim Savage

Kim's books are coming soon!

Tamara Ireland Stone

Tamara Ireland's books are coming soon!

Featured Books

Inside Out

A busy coffee shop-a robbery gone wrong. Two gunmen, nine hostages, flashing lights. And Zach is caught in the mayhem. But nobody realizes that Zach-who has no gun and no knife-has a mind more dangerous than any weapon.

By Terry Trueman
Cold Calls

Three high school students--Eric, Shelly, and Fatima--have one thing in common: "I know your secret." Each one is blackmailed into bullying specifically targeted schoolmates by a mysterious caller who whispers from their cell phones and holds carefully guarded secrets over their heads. But how could anyone have obtained that photo, read those hidden pages,...

By Charles Benoit
Crank trilogy #3: Fallout

Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her...

By Ellen Hopkins

2000 Expected Teens for 2016

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...

32 Awesome Author Attendees

We have authors coming in from all over the country – and Canada – and the UK! TBF has gone international!

11 Years in the Making

And still FREE to attend!

I didn't know whether to bask in the spotlight, or let out a big, embarrassing fangirl squeal at all of the other amazing authors participating in the event.

‐ Sarah Ockler