Five borough read: Countee Cullen Branch

In this photo: Ebony, Lynn Weingarten, Donna Freitas, Rachel Vail, and Eliot Schrefer
Place: Countee Cullen Branch, NYPL Harlem

The NYC Teen Author Fest 2010 is happening right now! Here are the remaining events, it's not to late to attend!

THURSDAY Evening, 3/18
(Books of Wonder, 18 W 18th St, 6-8pm):
Sourcebooks Fire Launch Party featuring authors Lisa Brown, Anne Eliot Crompton, Helen Ellis, Adele Griffin AND the rocking tunes of Tiger Beat! (with Libba Bray, Dan Ehrenhaft, Barnabas Miller, and Natalie Standiford)

FRIDAY, 3/19
(South Court, 42nd Street, 2-5 and 6-8:30)
NYC Teen Author Festival Symposium Afternoon
2:00 Introduction
2:10 – 3:00: Using Genre to Tell the True Story of Adolescence-featuring: Judy Blundell, Sarah Beth Durst, Lauren McLaughlin, Diana Peterfreund,
Sara Shepard, Maggie Stiefvater, Robin Wasserman
3:00 – 3:30: Making a First Impression – 2010 Debut Authors
featuring: Angie Frazier, Emily Horner, Alyssa Sheinmel, Ebony Wilkins
3:30 - 4:15: Grief, Loss, and the YA Novel -featuring: Alexandra Bullen, Heather Duffy-Stone, Donna Freitas, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Darer Littman, Lisa Ann Sandell, Samantha Schutz
4:15 – 5: The Boy You Can’t Have -featuring: Susane Colasanti, Elizabeth Eulberg, Robin Palmer, Elizabeth Scott, Melissa Walker, Maryrose Wood
5-6: Break
Evening
6:00 – A Tribute to Regina Hayes -featuring: Sarah Dessen, Joy Peskin, Jacqueline Woodson
6:45 – 8:30: What it Feels Like for a Girl – Writing in a Teen Girl’s Voice -featuring: Jessica Blank, Eireann Corrigan, Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, Terra Elan McVoy, Siobhan Vivian, Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Jacqueline Woodson

SATURDAY, 3/20
(Bartos Forum, 42nd Street, 1pm): Stuff for the Teen Age Event
Come check out Stuff for the Teen Age, The New York Public Library’s list of the hottest books, movies, music, and video games from 2009. Talk with your favorite authors. Rock out to your favorite songs. Have fun. Hear a very special presentation from keynote speaker, Libba Bray, the author of Going Bovine.

SUNDAY afternoon:
Books of Wonder Signing (18 W 18th St, 2-6)
2:00-2:45 -Alma Alexander Nora Baskin Cathleen Davitt Bell Judy Blundell Libba Bray Coe Booth Elise Broach Alexandra Bullen Nick Burd Sarah Burningham Susane Colasanti Matt De La Pena Violet Haberdasher Maggie Stiefvater
245-3:30 -Tom Dolby Heather Duffy-Stone Sarah Beth Durst Elizabeth Eulberg Gayle Forman Aimee Friedman Jenny Han Alice Hoffman Carla Jablonksi Melissa Kantor Kristen Kemp Michelle Knudsen Peter Lerangis David Levithan
3:30-4:15 -Sarah Darer Littman Barry Lyga Robin MacCready Carolyn Mackler Sarah Maclean Marianne Mancusi Amanda Marrone Wendy Mass Lauren McLaughlin Neesha Meminger Sarah Mlynowski Michael Northrup Robin Palmer
4:15-5:00 -Diana Peterfreund Shani Petroff O.Rhuday-Perkovich Matthue Roth Marie Rutkoski Lisa Ann Sandell Samantha Schutz Elizabeth Scott Kieran ScottCourtney Sheinmel Sara Shepard Abby Sher Jon Skovron
5:00-5:45 -Jennifer Smith Natalie Standiford Rachel Vail David Van Etten Siobhan Vivian Adrienne Maria Vrettos Melissa Walker Robin Wasserman Suzanne Weyn Lynn Weingarten Martin Wilson Jake Wizner Maryrose Wood Michelle Zink