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

San Diego’s annual Book Crawl in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day: April 25th-27th, 2026

More about the Book Crawl here.

LitChella! RCC’s first annual literary festival, will be held May 12, 13, and 14, 2026 in the Riverside City College’s Quad Courtyard from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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.

The San Diego County Fair is the greatest story our community has ever told. It’s a tale of food, fun, friends, family, laughter, tradition, music, amazement, and pure, unbridled joy. The Fair — the largest and longest-running community event in San Diego County — makes its triumphant return from Wednesday, June 10, through Sunday, July 5, 2026.

This year’s theme is, Once Upon a Fair, a celebration of stories where books are larger than life and words and artwork leap off the pages. The 2026 San Diego County Fair invites fairgoers of all ages to explore the world of books through educational exhibits, hands-on exploration, and community engagement

Catch Tracy Badua onstage Wednesday, June 10, Opening Day of the 2026 San Diego County Fair. Join the fun before 5 pm and you’ll get in for only $5!