Goals of the Tweens Read Book Festival
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.
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Directors/Committee Chairs
Cathy Berner - Programming
Jenny Hinojosa
Kimberly McCalla
Allison Sutton
Committee Members
Kurt Beard
Tamiko Brown
Anne Farley
Rebecca Gruen
Karin Jones Tong
Karen Kirk
Georgia Luke
Amanda Maslonka
Debbie McComb
Estella Montoya-Riley
Kortnie Rieck
Melissa Rippy
Yvonne Russell
William Schaller
Natasha Smith
Rachel Stout
Stephanie Tanner