The Sacramento Book Festival returns on April 19. Photo courtesy of Sacramento Book Festival

SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) – On April 19, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the California Writers Club Sacramento Branch will launch the third annual Sacramento Book Festival at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in River Park, just north of the Sacramento State University campus.

The festival will feature over 200 local authors, selling books for people of all ages, performing readings, participating in panels and introducing themselves to Sacramento readers. The roster includes many literary luminaries, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Wendelin Van Draanen, Gail Carriger, James Rollins and Allison Brennan, plus many others whom Sacramento readers will recognize and enjoy.

As part of the festival’s focus on literacy, the Sacramento Book Festival is running a book drive for activity books for the Mustard Seed School (a program of Loaves & Fishes), a free private school for children ages 3-15 years old who are currently homeless.

Sacramento Book Festival will welcome the Sacramento Literacy Foundation to the event; an organization whose mission is to help all children in our community read at grade level.

There will be activities for children, author readings, food trucks and coffee vendors on site, and a passport stamp hunt with prizes. And best of all, the event is free to the public.

For more information, visit www.sacramentobookfestival.com/.