Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at the Midtown Scholar! As a proud participant with over 500 independent bookstores across the country in this one-day national event, we’ll have family fun activities, special book giveaways, blind-date-with-a-book, exclusive sales and merchandise, and a special book signing with one of our favorite local writers. See below for all the details!

10:00am: Celebrity Storytime with WGAL8 News Anchor Tosin Fakile!

10:30am: Special Performance from the Popcorn Hat Players of Gamut Theater!

1:00pm | Book Signing with Paul Hood | The Time of Their Lives in London

Why Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at the Scholar?

Independent bookstores are not just stores, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.

In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.