Welcome to the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books Children Teen event schedule! We are excited about this year's presenting authors and have placed the schedule into a compact, color-coded grid that you may use to organize your visit to the Festival. Click a button below and your events and then scroll down - your events will display below.
Events for Children Events for Teens
Click the title of an event to obtain detailed information about that event including a short description, the moderator and details on each panelist. The schedule is subject to change and will be updated as new information is made available. Remember that a printed version of this information will be available in the Arizona Daily Star on the Sunday before the festival. Don't forget to check out our other Entertainment and Author Activities to round out your schedule.
Each event on this grid has a star next to it. Click a star to bookmark an event. Click it again to remove the bookmark. When you are finished, you can view your bookmarked events in a printer-ready format here.
NEW THIS YEAR: TFOB will adhere to the University's Clear bag policy for entry to an author's event; find the details here.
Sat, Mar 14 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Arizona Daily Star Stage (Seats 250) | Backroom Deals in Our Own Backyards Arizona Daily Star | No event | I Spy: Undercover at the CIA Arizona Daily Star | The Long Shadow of Foster Care Arizona Daily Star | No event |
Student Union Gallagher Theater (Seats 337) | |||||
Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110) | No event | No event | No event | Activism in Action Joi and Bianca Bowen Roberta and Bill Witchger Carolyn W. Pope | No event |
Student Union Sabino (Seats 87) | Covering a World on the Brink Joan and Adrian Van Loozenoord Zibby Media David and Terri Polan | No event | No event | No event | No event |
UA Mall Tent (Seats 250) | No event | No event | Tech Gone Wild Pepper Viner Homes Stephen Golden and Susan Tarrence Marcia and Tyler Tingley | No event | No event |
Sat, Mar 14 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143) | Extremism in a Post-Truth America Sara Cohen The Neymeyer Family KI Wildman Wendy Huempfner MD | No event | No event | No event | No event |
Integrated Learning Center Room 150 (Seats 155) | No event | No event | No event | What Can We Learn from Ukraine? Hughes Federal Credit Union Kimberly Peters and Bruce Peters Joanne and Howie Adams Leslie Nixon and Barry Kirschner | No event |
Sun, Mar 15 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
Arizona Daily Star Stage (Seats 250) | No event | No event | No event | Why American Healthcare Isn't Arizona Daily Star | No event |
Student Union Gallagher Theater (Seats 337) | |||||
Student Union Kachina (Seats 100) | No event | No event | No event | No event | Food in Culture and Community Elizabeth Green Judith Marro Jim and Kim Rosborough |
Koffler Room 204 (Seats 300) | No event | No event | No event | No event | |
Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89) | No event | No event | When Truth Is Dangerous: Stories of Defiance Research Corporation for Science Advancement Sundt Construction, Inc. William Banks and Cheryl Ficarra | No event | No event |
Sun, Mar 15 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
UA Mall Tent (Seats 250) | No event | No event | No event | Can't We All Just Get Along? Pepper Viner Homes Stephen Golden and Susan Tarrence Paula Schlusberg | No event |
Integrated Learning Center Room 120 (Seats 300) | Injustice for All? 
Hudson Group Marshall Foundation Alan and Sharon Levin Bill and Cindy Rainey | No event | No event | No event | No event |
Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143) | No event | International Insecurity Sara Cohen The Neymeyer Family Research Corporation for Science Advancement | No event | No event | No event |
Integrated Learning Center Room 150 (Seats 155) | History Is Not Destiny Hughes Federal Credit Union Kimberly Peters and Bruce Peters David Cormier and Karyl Lynch | No event | Finding One's Place Hughes Federal Credit Union Kimberly Peters and Bruce Peters Dow Jazz Films Frank and Kathryn Hartley | No event | No event |
UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110) | No event | Meet Luis Alberto Urrea University of Arizona Libraries University of Arizona Press Jack and Katrina McNerney | No event | No event | No event |
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