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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

Jennifer Dugan

Author of "Melt With You", "Some Girls Do"and "Verona Comics".

Julian Randall

Author of "Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa: Pilar Ramirez Series (Book 1)".

Featured Books

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. Everyone in town knows and fears Ms. Laura Samuel Sett. She is the town watchdog, always on the lookout for unsavory words and the unsavory people who use them. She is also Mac's sixth-grade teacher. Mac and his friends are outraged when they discovered that...

By A. S. King
Fallout: Crank (Book 3)

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
Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa: Pilar Ramirez Series (Book 1)

Twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta “Purp” Ramirez’s world is changing, and she doesn’t care for it one bit. Her Chicago neighborhood is gentrifying and her chores have doubled since her sister, Lorena, left for college. The only constant is Abuela and Mami’s code of silence around her cousin Natasha—who vanished in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the...

By Julian Randall
The Rumor Game

All it takes is one spark to start a blaze. At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for the children of DC’s elite, a single rumor has the power to ruin a life. Nobody knows that better than Bryn. She used to have it all—the perfect boyfriend, a bright future in politics, and even popularity, thanks to her best friend, cheer captain Cora. Then one mistake sparked a...

By Sona Charaipotra

2500 Average teens attending past festivals!

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!

200 Teen & adult volunteers help make TBF happen!

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...

18 Awesome Author Attendees at TBF 2022!

We have authors coming in from all over!

16 Years in the Making

And still FREE to attend!