The #CLEReads YA Book Festival celebrates stories encouraging young readers to find their voices and advocate for personal and community well-being. Featuring authors of YA fiction and nonfiction focused on mental health, self-care, social justice, and more, the festival aims to inspire teens to pursue healthy, empowered lives and positively impact the world around them.

Hip-hop artist and activist Common will close the festival by discussing his new title, And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self.

Books will be available for sale courtesy of Mac's Backs. All of the featured authors will be available to sign books after the keynote address. However, Common is available to sign books for a very limited time. 

Please note: Registering here does not guarantee a seat in the Auditorium.  Seating in the Auditorium will be made available to registered attendees on a first-come, first-seated basis. Once the Auditorium is filled, overflow seating areas will be made available. All overflow seating will be set up for live simulcast (sound and video) from the Auditorium. |Attendees will be checked in at the door and provided with wristbands indicating their assigned seating area so there is no need to wait in line.