Lists for Kids and Adults Reflect America’s Diverse Local Literary Heritage
The 56 affiliated Centers for the Book of the Library of Congress have chosen books, called Great Reads, that will be recognized at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Every year since 2002, these Library affiliates have chosen a book to celebrate at the Book Festival in the Library’s Roadmap to Reading — a vast space at the festival where every center has a table to promote their book choices as well as other aspects of their state’s or territory’s unique literary heritage. Each Center for the Book affiliate chooses its Great Reads titles.
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“The titles named are as diverse as the states and territories that choose them,” said Guy Lamolinara, head of the Center for the Book Affiliates Program. “The Roadmap to Reading and the participation of the affiliate Centers for the Book make the National Book Festival a truly national event.”
The Library of Congress Center for the Book (https://www.loc.gov/programs/center-for-the-book/about-this-program/) has affiliates in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and Northern Marianas. These affiliates carry out the center’s mission of promoting books, reading, libraries and literacy, as well as their local literary heritage.
The 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival is Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Authors from across the nation will participate in programs that bring writers directly in touch with their readers. Authors who will be featured at the festival will be announced this summer.
The 2024 Great Reads for Kids are:
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