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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

Barry Lyga

Author of many books, including "Hocus Pocus: The Flash (Book 1)" and "Johnny Quick: The Flash (Book 2)".

Erin Forbes

Author of "Fire & Ice: The Elementals (Volume 1)" and "Fire & Ice: The Lost Dreamer".

Featured Books

Beyond the Waterfall

Kyla Marine has never been one to get emotional, easily trust someone, or admit she was wrong. Her life has been the same for years, confiding everything in her best friend Awanata, trapped inside school grounds, looking for an escape. What more, she wonders, is out there? Although she ignores it, deep inside of her she feels that something isn’t right. Until it...

By Eryn Flynn
Signs of Life: Rough Romance Trilogy (Book 2)

The tables are turned with a vengeance in this tour de force love story. Nearly a year has gone by and now its Dorothy who is fragmented and lost, while Joey keeps the promise he had made her to better himselfeven though shes gone. Joey talks about what is happening in the present while Dorothy describes what happened before in the moments and hours after the Glock...

By Selene Castrovilla

2500 Expected Teens for 2018

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!

13 Years in the Making

And still FREE to attend!