Events

✨📚 TASTE OF THE BOOK FAIR 📚✨
>>>> Saturday, October 18, 10am-2pm
📍 Authors at @bivouacnorthpark
📍 Artists/crafters at @verbatim.books
📍 Booksellers/zines in the Bargain Center parking lot (Ray St. And North Park Way)
Over thirty literary vendors popping up around North Park! Support local authors, artists, and booksellers!

Liwanag Lit Fest 2025 returns to the Michelle Obama Library in Long Beach CA on Saturday 10/25 from 11am to 5pm!

Learn more at belcantobooks.net/liwanag

Join acclaimed middle grade authors Tracy Badua and Annabelle Oh for spooky mask making, prize wheel spinning, and signing of Ghoul Summer and Maggie and the Story Shadows!

Join the City of Virginia Beach Public Library for a special visit with author of Freddie vs the Family Curse, Tracy Badua on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, 10 a.m. at MEO Central Library. Tracy will talk about her writing journey and end with a book signing.

More about the Battle of the Books and the trivia challenge here.

Emerald City Comic Con is the destination comic and pop culture show for the Pacific Northwest. ECCC delivers the best that the comics and pop culture industry has to offer directly from the creators and celebrities themselves, while bringing super fans exactly what they crave: interaction with quality content and guests and an inclusive space to celebrate their fandom.

More about ECCC here.

TomeCon is an exciting day of concurrent sessions based on all facets of literacy for students in grades 2-12.
Session topics include reading, writing, technology, engineering, art, music, and more!
Authors from across the country visit with and teach students at the conference.
​Students also receive awards for their participation in Tome Competitions throughout the year.

More about TomeCon here.

At this month’s meeting, the book’s authors will be popping in for a virtual visit!

Middle Grade Book Group is an in-person group for kids between the ages of 6 and 12 who are interested in reading chapter books. Every month the facilitator will choose a chapter book whose publisher-assigned age rating is between 8 and 12.

Join us to discuss this month’s book, The Cookie Crumbles, by Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow—and meet Tracy and Alechia, as they visit us virtually for a Q&A and some fun activities!

While competing in the Golden Cookie Competition for a full ride to the prestigious Sunderland boarding school, Laila gets mixed up in a mystery as she and her best friend, Lucy, search for the truth after one of the celebrity judges collapses after sampling her showpiece.

Middle Grade Book Group meets in person at Belle Haven Library on the 3^rd Thursday of every month, and at Menlo Park Library on the 3^rd Saturday of each month.

Tracy will be signing at The Cove Books, Booth #922

More info about the LA Times Festival of Books here

In Search of Middle Grade Mysteries

Put your detective caps on for this intriguing panel, featuring middle grade books with a mysterious twist! Shafaq Khan’s Zeyna Lost and Found follows a British-Pakistani aspiring detective in London, whose overactive imagination regularly gets her in trouble because she believes there is mystery and intrigue everywhere… until there is a mystery at the shops. Set in another shop run by a survivor of the Titanic, where Colette secretly works, Nikki Shannon Smith’s Deep Secrets: A Titanic Novel weaves between the Great Depression and a journey aboard the Titanic as Colette uncovers the mystery surrounding her father’s death as a Black factory worker. Tracy Badua adds a hint of magic to the mystery in Thea and the Mischief Makers, a story about a pair of grumpy duwendes—Filipino goblins—who threaten to wreak havoc on Thea’s neighborhood and her chance at a fresh start as the cool girl at Junior Stunt Warrior summer camp! Helping us to moderate this panel and close the case is the knowledgeable Sharon Levin, who has been reviewing children’s and YA literature for over 30 years.

Event date: Saturday, May 30
Event time: 1:30pm-2:15pm
Location: Berkeley Public Library, Teen Room
Audiences: middle grade, Tween and Up
Themes: Fiction, Mystery/Crime/Thrillers, Youthlit
Booksales: Hicklebee’s Bookstore, Inc., on the 1st floor near the Teen room

More about the 2026 Bay Area Book Festival here.

Roundtable: Empowering Filipino American Voices in Fiction: Resources for New and Emerging Creatives with Celeste Dador, Mia P. Manansala, and Tracy Badua

About: The FANHS conference forms a national home for students, scholars, community leaders, artists, and healers. The space opens pathways for shared research, storytelling, and cultural memory. Emerging scholars and students enter this home with new questions, new narratives, and new visions for Filipino American history.

PiNoise merges “Pinoy” and “noise” and is pronounced “pea-noise.” It was originally used in 1998 as the name of an annual Filipino pop music festival in San Francisco. We are using it now to say that we are gathering to make noise. And Filipino traditions have many examples of what that sounds like–not only in music, but in laughter, story-telling, and ritual. We are making noise as Filipino Americans and FANHS, here–in the nation’s capital for the first time–and now, recognizing the moment we are in as a nation.

Monuments to Change is a nod to the landscape around us. But it also recognizes how Filipino Americans have remade American history. Monuments literally cement dominant narratives in place, narratives that extol American heroism at the expense of Filipinos. But through scholarship, organizing and community action, we have successfully changed monuments and added new layers of meaning. Each effort opens space for fuller histories and deeper understanding

To learn more and register, click here.