The goal of the Tweens Read Book Festival is to celebrate and promote reading by connecting tweens with authors. 

The target audience for the event is students in grades 5-8. 

The Festival organizers seek to:

Connect tween readers to local and national authors and illustrators.

Encourage interaction between aspiring tween writers and established authors.

Educate, enrich, inform, and entertain local tweens and other participants.

Celebrate the educational and recreational benefits of tween reading and writing.

Ignite a passion for reading and writing in the tween community.

Directors/Committee Chairs

Cathy Berner - Programming

Jenny Hinojosa

Kimberly McCalla

Allison Sutton

Committee Members

Kurt Beard

Anne Farley

Rebecca Gruen

Karin Jones Tong

Karen Kirk

Amanda Maslonka

Debbie McComb

Estella Montoya-Riley

Esteban Perez

Melissa Rippy

Yvonne Russell

William Schaller

Natasha Smith

Rachel Stout

Stephanie Tanner

Katrina Zannier