Greater Rochester Teen Book Fest

TBF is one of my favorite events in the year. To see people screaming with joy as they see their favorite authors. To see people looking at the schedule to see what they have time to check out.

On top of that, my son was old enough to come to it. As a parent, it was both scary and exciting. As a librarian, I was so happy that he was able to experience this most awesome event.

Jack's first year at TBF!

A post shared by Catherine Kyle (@cathyakyle) on May 20, 2017 at 6:35am PDT

As the countdown continues here's a picture of our wonderful TBF 2017 Committee! These wonderful people work hard every year to give you the best possible TBF experience ever! □□□ #roctbf #roctbf2017 #teenbookfestival #teenbookfestival2017 #teenbookfest #teenbookfest2017 #nazarethcollege

A post shared by Greater Rochester TBF (@teenbookfest) on May 17, 2017 at 9:29am PDT

One of the best things about the festival is that teens get priority. Need to sit and an adult has the last available chair? We kick them out and you get to go first. Teens ALWAYS get first here at the festival. Author's got time for one last signature and there's an adult and a teen right behind. The teen gets first opportunity. Yup. Sometimes we get angry adults that yell at us, but that's okay, because you know what that means? We have so many people that like/love an author that we are willing to do what we can, even if that makes an adult (or many adults) mad at us.

Check out TBF's website here!