When 8-year-old Dillon Helbig wanted to share his book, The adventures of Dillon Helbig's Crismis by "Dillon His Self," he knew the Ada Community Library in the Lake Hazel branch of Boise, Idaho, was the place to go. While there with his grandmother, he slipped his 81-page book, made with red notebook and designed with colored pencils, onto a shelf in the children's section unbeknownst to anyone, including his grandmother. After telling his mother, they went to retrieve it, but it wasn't there. The library found it later and Alex Hartman, the branch manager said, it "was far too obviously special an item for us to consider getting rid of it." Dillon was awarded the library's first-ever Whodini Award for Best Young Novelist. The book is now officially available to check out which has a waitlist of 55 people! He told Good Morning America that it's a dream come true. "I wanted to put my book in the library center since I was 5, and I always had a love for books and libraries," Dillon said. "I've been going to libraries a lot since I was a baby." There's a sequel in the works and he's working on another book -- The Jacket Eating Closet!

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