May 15 2010 - Fifth Annual Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival Scheduled

Get ready as the red carpet rolls out for thousands of teens as they come together to meet their favorite authors at this year's TBF Live! The 5th Annual Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival. If you love to read literature which shocks you while it comforts you, embraces you while it confuses you, worries you while it inspire you, this is an event you will not want to miss! Nazareth College will host this free day-long celebration that will take place on Saturday, May 15, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. For more information visit www.tbflive.org or contact Stephanie Squicciarini at the Fairport Public Library at (585) 223-9091.

TBF Live! will bring teens face-to-face with twenty eight award-winning authors from across the nation. Attendees will be able to meet and ask questions of their favorite authors as well as introduce themselves to new ones. The festival opens with a panel with all authors together and then continues with special breakout sessions designed to promote interaction with readers and writers. Teens will also have the chance to attend an autographing session with books available for purchase through Barnes and Noble.

Featured authors include Laurie Halse Anderson, Holly Black, Coe Booth, Robin Brande, Kay Cassidy, manga writing duo Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges, Marissa Doyle, Simone Elkeles, Ellen Hopkins, Patrick Jones, James Kennedy, A.S. King, Daniel Kirk, Alisa Libby, Barry Lyga, Mari Mancusi, Lisa McMann, Ben Mikaelsen, Alyson Noël, Sarah Ockler, Matt de la Peña, Amy Kathleen Ryan, Lisa Schroeder, Jennifer E. Smith, Terry Trueman, Vivian Vande Velde, and Martin Wilson. For more information about all of the TBF authors, visit http://www.tbflive.org/.

Teens can sometimes be overlooked in libraries with much attention, money, and resources given to children and adults. To counter that, a committee of Public and School Librarians across two counties has created a positive, cooperative opportunity dedicated to this age group. TBF Live! The Fifth Annual Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival is a day-long celebration featuring authors who write specifically for teens. TBF Live! will be held at Nazareth College on Saturday, May 15, 2010, 9:00am-5:00pm.