Save the date! Pasadena Loves YA 2017 will be held on Sat, Sep 16 from 11 am-4 pm at the Pasadena Public Library, Central Branch. As always, the event is free! No tickets are necessary. RSVP on Facebook for reminders and alerts.

Further details will be announced Summer 2017, including the author lineup and schedule.

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Save the date! The next Pasadena Loves YA event will be held on Saturday, Sept 17, 2016 from 12-4 pm.

The authors will be announced as soon as we receive all of their confirmations!

Need more info? Check out Event Details and FAQs.

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Don't forget to check out all the other local book festivals in the meantime--check the lower right sidebar for links.

The planning committee (Jane Gov, Alyson Beecher, Alethea Allarey) would like to thank our wonderful authors, everyone from Pasadena Public Library including staff and volunteers, Bridge to Books volunteers, publishers, bloggers, and of course the readers who attended Pasadena Loves YA on Saturday, May 23, 2015.

We will continue to update this page with links, so if you wish to be included in the acknowledgements, please email frootjoos at gmail dot com.

Photos by Katie Ferguson

Authors

Mary McCoy - @MaryElMcCoy - Q&A on Kid Lit Frenzy
Katie Alender - @KatieAlender - Q&A on Movies, Shows & Books
Victoria Aveyard - @VictoriaAveyard - Spotlight on The Consummate Reader
Alexis Bass - @AlexisBassWrite - Q&A on Recently Acquired Obsessions
Julie Berry - @JulieBerryBooks - Q&A on FanGirlFeeels
Livia Blackburne - @LKBlackburne - Q&A on Nite Lite Book Reviews
Virginia Boecker - @VirgBoecker
Jessica Brody - @JessicaBrody - Spotlight on iFandomsCollide
Stephen Chbosky - @StephenChbosky - Spotlight on The Windy Pages
Brandy Colbert - @BrandyColbert - Spotlight on Nite Lite Book Reviews
Ava Dellaira - @AvaDellaira - Q&A Book You Very Much
Kody Keplinger - @Kody_Keplinger - Spotlight on A Bookish Escape
Liz Maccie - @lmaccie - Spotlight on The Reader's Antidote
Morgan Matson - @morgan_m - Q&A on What a Nerd Girl Says
Lauren Miller - @lmillerwrites
Alexandra Monir - @timelessalex
Jennifer Niven - @jenniferniven - Interview on Joy Sandwich Podcast - GermMagazine
Romina Russell - @rominarussell - Q&A with Fiktshun
Sarah Tomp - @swtomp - Q&A on Books Unbound
Kiersten White - @kierstenwhite - Q&A at Adventures of a Book Junkie

Publishers
Simon Teen
Harper Teen
Macmillan Teen Books
Penguin Random House
Little, Brown
Hyperion
Skyscape
Sourcebooks

Recaps
Reading over Sleeping
The Romance Bookie
The Book Belles