PANELS, SIGNINGS, FOOD TRUCKS, ANIMATION, VIDEO GAMES, ART, & BOOKS SATURDAY, APRIL 29 FROM 9AM TO 7PM AT SANTA MONICA HIGH SCHOOL WITH A SPECIAL PREVIEW EVENT FRIDAY, APRIL 28 AT THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY WWW.YALLWEST.COM in cooperation with with additional support from: Uncover your next obsession Stop by the Fierce Reads Booth to learn about the hottest new books and pick up exclusive giveaways! A sneak peek of Marissa Meyer’s The new Fierce RENEGADES A fi rst look at Reads tote bag! 2:30 PM Leigh Bardugo’s 10:00 AM THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS 3:30 PM FierceReads.com @FierceReads PROGRAM DISTRIBUTED WITH THE HELP OF 2 THE BESTSELLING SERIES RETURNS! is DIRECTORS Melissa de la Cruz & Margaret Stohl 2017 Festival Chairs Middle Grade Programming: Victoria Aveyard, Alexandra Bracken Pseudonymous Bosch & Danielle Paige & Alexander London Festival Producers Tori Hill & Shane Pangburn Festival Board Volunteer Coordinator Leigh Bardugo, Ally Condie, Patrick Dolan, Gretchen Schreiber Kami Garcia, Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Richelle Mead, Brendan Reichs, Ransom Riggs, Library Coordinators Veronica Roth, Jonathan Sanchez, Gabriel Robert Graves, Ivy Weston On Sale Sandoval, & Holly Goldberg Sloan & Rachel Foyt 9/19/17! School Outreach Coordinator Festival Staff Spencer Richardson Janelle Alexander, Ingrid Chang, Alyssa Colman, Kyle Dare, Sarah DeMont, Heide Festival Publicity Domenick, Sarah Enni, Jennifer Marmor, Megan Beatie Vickie Toro, Amanda Santos, Ashley Tarr, Paige Wilkins & Emily Williams Teen Ambassadors Emmet Vera Abrams, Sidney Bae, Lexie Bae, Darcy Bass, Sofia Behnam, Omari Benjamin, Zoe Bennett, Ava Chapman, Sydney Chung, Sydney Chung , Audrey Chung , Devon Davila, Fallon Dern, Samantha Eng, Luca Flores, Sarah Fuchs, Samuel Fuchs, Isabella Gilchrist, Melissa Glover, Clara De Goldsmith, Coco Goran, Orla Goran, Liliana Gutierrez , Spencer Herb, Jordan Hickey, Samantha Ho, Becca Hochman, Leah Jackson, Mattie Johnston, Sabrina Josephson, Yoshimi Kimura, Katie Lee, William Li, Emma Lohr, Grace Lyde, Genevieve Marino, Daphne Moss, Quinn Neubert, Lana Neulander, Lily Richman, Zoe Sarinas, Ysabel Sarinas, Zia Saylor, Petra Schaaf-Grisham, Hope Schaaf, Abby Semenick, Camillle Simkin, Joshua Simkin, Sascha Tappan, Stefani Tovar, Leo Viscomi, Keshara West & Charley Zinn PRESENTING SPONSOR: Epic Reads PREMIER SPONSORS: LAUREATE LEVEL: Fierce Reads Riveted First in Line Disney Publishing Worldwide Penguin Teen The Gotham Group I Read YA MEET LITERARY LION LEVEL: Del Rey Pique SOMAN HMH Teen Harlequin Teen NOVL Listening Library CHAINANI PATRONS Photo by David J. Martin Richard Abate Debra Driza Lisa McMann Corrie Wang Lindsey Allen Daniel Ehrenhaft Abdi Nazemian Eric and Dottie Zicklin Adi Alsaid Seth Fishman Ashley Pease New Leaf Literary & Media 11:00 am • Tent Leigh Bardugo Jenni Postil Gerber Carrie & Ken Richman Morris and Soman Chainani Meghan S Johnson Gabriel Sandoval Alma Schapiro Fund Middle Grade Truth or Dare Traci Chee Brad Krevoy Raphael Simon Schwab Charitable Jennifer Ciavarra Cynthia Levin Jennifer E. Smith The Grilled Cheese Truck Susane Colasanti Alex London Tamara Ireland Stone 3:00 pm • Epic Reads Tent Deby & Mark Lindee Pamela Topa Upchurch Elizabeth Craft Epic Reads Yoga FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS: Santa Monica Public Library, Mysterious Galaxy, SMMUSD 4:00 pm • North Gym FESTIVAL EXHIBITORS: Because You Love to Hate Me: Book Arts LA, Bookish Box, The Comic Bug, Duet Books, Owl Crate, Polandbananas Books, UCLA Quidditch, & Writopia Lab On Writing Exceptional Villainy Special Thanks Stefani Tovar, Dana Bart-Bell, and the Facilities department of SAMOHI 5:00 pm • Centennial Quad Signing PROGRAM DISTRIBUTED WITH THE HELP OF www.schoolforgoodandevil.com Jacket art © Iacopo Bruno 3 Olympic Blvd KEY P #YALLWEST P PARKING 2017 Bus Drop-Off FESTIVAL Handicap Entrance RESTROOMS 5TH & OLYMPIC MAP SATURDAY, APRIL 29 TRAFFIC SANTA MONICA HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTION 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 i INFORMATION FIRST AID FOOD TRUCK VENDORS: CENTENNIAL + QUAD Coolhaus, Dogtown Dogs, Fourth Street Fourth Heritage LA, Grilled Cheese BASEBALL Truck, Made in Brooklyn Pizza, i (QUIDDITCH) SEE P FIELD Pudding Truck, Poke Truck, BOOK SIGNING Get Shaved Ice, & Zugo Juice. WRISTBANDS SIGNINGS SCHEDULE In-N-Out Truck located on Main Quad BOOK 8 PAGE 17 ENTER 215 7 SALES i + SIGNINGS 103 210 211–213 Main Entrance 101 7TH & Michigan Opens at 9AM 1 BASKETBALL COURTS 3 102 TENT Entrance 5 6 SCIENCE i GYM NORTH TO 214 QUAD Opens at 10am Michigan TO BOOTHS AND EVENTS 209 Ave. 203 204–206 207–208 201 202 2 HUMANITIES YALLWEST BOOTHS Parking Available NORTH 4 301 at Two City Lots BARNUM Access Humanities BASKETBALL COURTS GYM Building via Science off 4th Street HALL 101 YALLWEST INFO Quad or Main Quad 102 BOOK ARTS LA 103 FIRST AID TO HUMANITIES BUILDING SCIENCE QUAD 201 FIERCE READS HISTORY HUMANITIES 202 I READ YA YALLWEST PANEL AND SPECIAL EVENT VENUES 203 PIQUE 302 BUILDING BUILDING 204 PHOTOBOOTH 1 ENTRANCE/TICKETING 303 11 205 NOVL 304 MAIN 206 OWLCRATE 2 NORTH GYM (Panels) QUAD 207 HMH TEEN 208 DISNEY PUBLISHING TO GREENSPACE 305 3 BASKETBALL COURTS (Food Trucks, Info, Quidditch) 306 10 9 209 HARLEQUIN TEEN 210 MYSTERIOUS GALAXY 4 BARNUM HALL (Main Stage) 307 308 211 YALLWEST MERCH GALLERY 212 THE COMIC BUG m 5 TENT (Panels) g CAFETERIA 310 213 POLANDBANANAS 6 SCIENCE QUAD (Activities, Vendors, Sponsors, Events) 13 12 214 FESTIVAL TENT 215 WRISTBANDS 311 MEETING 7 GARDEN (Wristbands) SPACE 14 312 MAIN QUAD 313 301 EPIC READS 8 CENTENNIAL QUAD (Signings) 302 WRITOPIA LAB GREEN 7th Street 303 DUET BOOKS 9 HUMANITIES BUILDING (Panels) SPACE 304 BOOKISH BOX 305 PENGUIN TEEN 10 GALLERY (Panels) 306 FIRST IN LINE 11 MAIN QUAD (Vendors, Sponsors, In-N-Out Truck) 307 LISTENING LIBRARY 308 RIVETED 12 MEETING SPACE (Cupcakes, Cookies, and Other Events) 309 PRESS TENT 310 DJ HUSTLE Pico Blvd. 13 CAFETERIUM (Panels) Pico Blvd. Entrance 311 SAMOHI DRINKS Opens at 11am 312 PRESS 14 GREENSPACE (Book Olympics, Meetings) 313 IN-N-OUT 4 WE ARE WHAT YOU READ AT YALLWEST! RENÉE TRACI ALLY AHDIEH CHEE CONDIE MELISSA SETH ALEXANDER DE LA CRUZ FISHMAN LONDON MARIE TAHEREH BRENDAN LU MAFI REICHS RANSOM HOLLY JOHN RIGGS GOLDBERG COREY SLOAN WHALEY DON’T MISS THESE EVENTS PRESENTED BY PENGUIN TEEN: SATURDAY, 4/29 AT 2PM SATURDAY, 4/29 FROM 11AM – 4PM Alex & Eliza Present: A Schulyer Ball #PlayWarcross Bounty Hunt Featuring author Melissa de la Cruz, a Hamilton We have a mission for Marie Lu fans . sign-a-long, and Sprinkles Cupcakes and it comes with a reward! Main Quad Visit the Penguin Teen booth for details Swing by the Penguin Teen booth for galley and swag giveaways! Plus receive a FREE quote tote when you sign up for the newsletter! For live updates follow @PenguinTeen on Twitter. www.penguinteen.com PenguinTeen Books @PenguinTeen PenguinTeen 5 DID YOU READ THE HUNGER GAMES before it was cool to volunteer as tribute? WERE YOU PECULIAR before everyone knew Miss Peregrine? 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Sign-up available at door. reader’s copy!* Event limited to 100 people. FirstInLineReaders.com #FirstInLine #YALLWEST Presented by Random House *While supplies last 6 7 WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, located at the & WHY NOT? sponsored by Over 100 authors and presenters, including New York Times Bestsellers along with local and acclaimed young Garage Entrance adult and middle grade writers, plus notable TV, film, (Additional Parking video game, & comic creators. on Fourth Street) 7th Street A free event with a full day of panels, book signings, food trucks, bad jokes, killer photo ops & general geeky shenanigans. 4 April 29, 2017, 2 9AM – 7PM Gates open at 9AM Panels and Signings from 10AM to 6PM YALLWEST Smackdown Finale at 6PM P Santa Monica High School P 1 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 ilshire th th th th nd 7 4 6 5 2 DIRECTIONS P Ocean P LBAY LCL From the 10 Freeway West APL th Exit at 4th Street/5th Street. Stay left Paciic Coast Highay P 3 Street Promenade Street at fork and follow signs to 4th Street. rd P 3 P Parking 1 Santa Monica Blvd Parking available off 4th street at Santa Monica Blvd. the Civic Center Structure, 333 Civic P P Center Drive, and Civic Center Lot, 1855 Main Street. Additional lots Broaday P available both at the beach and near P the Third Street Promenade. P Metro xpo Line Drop-off Access Pier Colorado M Donton Santa Passenger drop-off access from Monica Station 6th Street Seventh Street via Michigan Ave. Bus P Olympic ACTIVITIES drop-off via Olypic Blvd. at 6th street. Handicap accessibility also at the 10 Team Trivia 6-7pm Olympic and 6th street entrance. P P Main th AUTHOR SIGNINGS Public Transportation 4 Michigan HGH Scratch Gaming Santa Monica High School can be P th SCHL 1 6-7PM 7-8PM 7 reached via the Santa Monica Big Blue APL 9TH Bus routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9.