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LGBT Giving Circle

LGBT Giving Circle at the Rochester Area Community Foundation grant to support Author Bill Konigsberg.

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

Ellen Hopkins

Author of many books, including "Crank: Crank (Book 1)" and "Glass: Crank (Book 2)".

Jen Calonita

Author of "Mirror Mirror: Twisted Tale (Book 6)", "Conceal, Don't Feel: Twisted Tale (Book 7)"and "Go the Distance: Twisted Tale (Book 11)".

Featured Books

Heiress Apparently: Daughters of the Dynasty (Book 1)

Gemma Huang is a recent transplant to Los Angeles from Illinois, having abandoned plans for college to pursue a career in acting, much to the dismay of her parents. Now she’s living with three roommates in a two-bedroom hovel, auditioning for bit roles that hardly cover rent. Gemma’s big break comes when she’s asked to play a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly...

By Diana Ma
The Magic Fish

Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's...

By Trung Le Nguyen
Furyborn

Coming May 22, 2018! The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it. When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only...

By Claire Legrand

2500 Expected Teens for 2021

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!

15 Years in the Making

And still FREE to attend!

Popular authors are inundated with requests for book festival invitations, so it can be a challenge to know which ones to accept and which to decline. In my experience there is just one "must attend" among them all, and that's the TBF of Rochester.

‐ Mark Crilley