Indiana State Library Young Readers Center presents Candace Fleming
Hosted by Indiana State LibraryJoin the Young Readers Center for an opportunity to meet author Candace Fleming, whose book was chosen as the Indiana Great Reads from Great Places selection for this year’s National…
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Join the Young Readers Center for an opportunity to meet author Candace Fleming, whose book was chosen as the Indiana Great Reads from Great Places selection for this year’s National Book Festival. On Saturday, August 8 at 2:00pm, Candace and will give a presentation and sign books. Books will be available for purchase.
The Indiana Affiliate Center for the Book is delighted to announce its National Book Festival Great Read titles for 2026! The Center has chosen Imogene’s Last Stand by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Nancy Carpernter for the 2026 Great Read Youth Selection. This book fits perfectly with the America’s 250th Semiquincentennial. It highlights how young people, like Imogene, can make a difference in their communities as we read about Imogene fighting to preserve history and save the local Historical Society from demolition. Learn more about National Book Festival and Great Reads here: https://blog.library.in.gov/category/indiana-young-readers-center/
About the Indiana Center for the Book
The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress is a community of 56 Affiliated Centers existing to promote reading, libraries and literacy across the country. There is an Affiliate Center for the Book in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and Northern Marianas. These Centers also elevate and advocate for each state’s unique literary heritage – developed by writers whose works reflect distinctively American places. Their stories, novels, essays, poems and other written works, rooted in the nation’s extraordinary diversity of people and geography, are often featured in the programs supported by the Affiliated Centers for the Book. These Centers engage, inspire, and inform diverse audiences through author talks, web-based programs, podcasts, videos, writing challenges for young people, book festivals and other events designed to advance appreciation of the written word.
The Indiana Affiliate Center for the Book is housed at the Indiana Young Readers Center at the Indiana State Library. The Indiana Affiliate Center for the Book (ICB) has several exciting programs that Hoosiers can get involved with to promote literacy. We jury the Firefly Early Literacy Book Award, we have interactive displays and kiosks to teach about the Library of Congress and literacy, we host the Indiana Statehood Day writing contest and the Letters About Literature writing contest, we manage a program to offer storytime, STEAM, book, Lego, and escape experience kits for teachers and librarians across the state, we host events and author visits, we created the Indiana Literary Places Map, and we support a collect of materials for young people written and illustrated by Indiana Authors and Illustrators.
About Great Reads from Great Places
Each year the Affiliated Centers for the Book participate in the National Book Festival in Washington DC. Each Center for the Book Affiliate will staff a booth in the Festival’s Roadmap to Reading area to promote reading, libraries and literacy in their state. Annually, these Affiliated Centers for the Book select “Great Reads from Great Places.” Each affiliate chooses two titles. In most cases, these books—one for youth and one for adults—are written by authors from their state or territory, take place in their state or territory and/or celebrate local culture and heritage. In addition, this year, in honor of America’s 250th Semiquincentennial, affiliate centers were encouraged to choose a title that connects to that theme in some way. The Indiana Affiliate Center for the Book works with Indiana Humanities to select titles.