Events - Teen and Tween Authors
Provided below is a list of all Collingswood Book Festival events featuring authors of fiction for teens and tweens. Also available is a downloadable and printable PDF of all festival events this year. Please note that the event schedule is subject to change as necessary.
Saturday, October 2
STEAM Workshop - 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Collingswood Public Library, 771 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ
Include in your Collingswood Book Fest plans this STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) Workshop with Luke Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham is an Emmy-nominated writer who worked on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He is the author of Leo: Inventor Extraordinaire, a novel for middle school/tween readers.
Leo is a 13-year-old orphan with a remarkable gift for invention. The only home he has ever known is a boarding school in Florence, Italy. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, and with near future technology in his arsenal of tools, Leo solves a range of problems, from escaping detention and building robotic pets to searching for connection with his real family.
The STEAM workshop will be upstairs in the Youth Services Area of the Collingswood Library from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Book Fest Day, October 2. It will include creative, STEAM-related fun, and time with Mr. Cunningham.
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Location: Tent 2 (on Haddon Avenue between Frazier and Lees Avenues)
10:00 a.m. — Featured Author (grade 6): Leslie Connor, The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle
10:45 a.m. — Featured Author (grade 6): Laurie Morrison, Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs and Every Shiny Thing
11:30 a.m. — Panel Discussion: What Keeps Us Apart; What Brings Us Together
Kwame Ivery, The Problem with the Other Side
Maria Andreu, Love in English
Cordelia Jensen, Every Shiny Thing
12:30 p.m. — Featured Author (grade 7): Laura Sibson, Edie in Between
1:15 p.m. — Featured Author (grade 4): Nancy Viau, Just One Thing
2:00 p.m. — Panel Discussion: From Inspiration to Print: The Road(s) to Publication
What do agents do? What do editors do? What do publishers do?
Darlene Beck Jacobson, Wishes, Dares, and How to Stand Up to a Bully
Yvonne Ventresca, Voyagers: The Third Ghost (anthology)
Robin Newman, The Case of the Bad Apples
Laurie Morrison, Saint Ivy: Kind at All Costs
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. — Book Signings: Meet Middle Grade and Young Adult Authors
J. A. Culican, Keeper of Dragons
Dianne Salerni, Jadie in Five Dimensions
Charlotte Bennardo, Evolution Revolution Series
Isabel Bandeira, Practically Ever After
Colleen Rowan Kosinski, A Promise Stitched in Time
David Neilsen, Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom
View bios of our participating authors of tween and teen books.