UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, located within the Penn State University Libraries, has selected Cordelia Jensen’s Lehigh Valley based middle grade novel in verse, “Lilac and the Switchback,” published by Holiday House (Walker Books Group), and Stewart O’Nan’s adult fiction novel based in Pittsburgh, “Evensong,” published by Atlantic Monthly Press (Grove Atlantic), to represent Pennsylvania in the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s 2026 Great Reads program.

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[Readers’ Discussion Guide for Evensong]