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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

Eryn Flynn

Author of "Beyond the Waterfall".

Erin Spencer (Audiobook Performer and Director)

Author of "People Like Us (Audiobook)".

Featured Books

Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

Jazz hands at the ready! Tiny Cooper (“the world’s largest person who is also really, really gay”) stole readers’ hearts when he was introduced to the world in the New York Times bestselling book Will Grayson, Will Grayson, co-authored by John Green and David Levithan. Now Tiny finally gets to tell his story—from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true...

By David Levithan
After the Woods

On the eve of the year anniversary of the Shiverton Abduction, two former best friends grapple with the consequences of that event

By Kim Savage
Fall From Grace

"I need you to steal something for me." Grace always has a plan. There's her plan to get famous, her plan to get rich, and-above all-her plan to have fun. Sawyer has plenty of plans, too. Plans made for him by his mother, his father, his girlfriend. Maybe they aren't his plans, but they are plans. When Sawyer meets Grace, he wonders if he should come up with a few...

By Charles Benoit
We are the Ants

Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.

By Shaun David Hutchinson

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!

What I loved most about it was the atmosphere of friendship that flowed through it. There was no “us” vs. “them.” No outsiders. We were all insiders, all of us who are passionate about good books; the kids, librarians, parents, teachers, authors. We all connected through our love of story. For a few hours, we filled the safest place in the world. I wish I could have captured the feeling and bottled it.

‐ Laurie Halse Anderson