When
Thursday, March 27, 2025 (7:00 PM - 8:30 PM) (CDT)
Event Details
Book of the Year Finalist - The Golden Wizard Book Prize - 2024
โข First Place - 2024 BookFest Award for Book SeriesโChildrens
โข Best Middle Grade Fiction - 2023 Page Turner Awards
โข Silver Medal - 2023 Readers' Favorite Book Awards
โข Winner - 2023 BookFest Award for the audiobook
Olly and his new friend, Ember, fight off school bullies, greedy mall developers, and nosey townspeople to protect their secret โ that there's a community of nature-loving creatures that have peacefully lived under Oak Hill for hundreds of years.
When Oliver (Olly) Appleton's grandfather dies in a suspicious accident, his family decides to move to Littleton, Massachusetts, to care for the family estate. Once there, they discover they need to protect their land from a greedy mall developer, Henry Dalton.
Sitting atop Oak Hill, the estate sits in an enchanted wooded sanctuary known for unusual activities and superstitions involving mythical creatures โ rumors passed down since the Nipmuc people roamed the land.
When Olly and his new friend, Ember, run into trouble with school bullies, the creatures known as Spores step in to protect them. Through their adventures, Olly and Ember build friendships with members of the Spore community and discover a common goal. They must work together quickly to protect Oak Hill from Henry Dalton or lose their homes forever.
March 27th, 2025
8 PM Eastern | 7 PM Central | 6 PM Mountain | 5 PM Pacific
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Glenn Somodi is an award-winning author who writes stories in the short space between lying down and dreaming. The stories are written over many nights, replayed, and rewritten in his head for enjoyment. His mission is to find anyone who enjoys
reading the stories as much as he enjoys creating them.
Inspired by some of his favorite childhood movies, like Star Wars and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Somodi writes stories filled with magic and adventure that might spark the imagination of others.
Book awards include a Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medal, a Page Turner Award for Best Middle Grade Fiction, The American Fiction Award for pre-teen, Golden Wizard Book Prize, and a Bookfest Winner for his audiobook. It was also recognized as a finalist
in the International Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards.