Brian Sommer’s Little Free Library boxes have been vandalized in the past, but it’s usually not this extreme.

Sommer and his wife, Colleen, take care of 13 Little Free Libraries in Carmel and Noblesville. The Little Free Library at Dillon Park in Noblesville was completely destroyed by fireworks last month.

Little Free Libraries house books for children and adults, but Sommer said the Dillon Park box was especially popular for kids books.

“It bothered me on a couple of fronts,” Sommer said. “One was the sheer power that blew the box apart. That box was probably only 2 years old and in really good shape. There are wood shards all over the place. (It) blew the box to smithereens. It’s also disturbing because it’s right by a water park feature and that’s a heavily trafficked park area for

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