Barbara O'Connor Author Visit, April 23

Award-winning children's author Barbara O'Connor will be visiting 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders on Wednesday, April 23rd. She will be talking to students about her job as a professional storyteller and her bestselling novel, Wish, which has won awards in 11 states including the Reader's Choice Award for Elementary Level Readers (2018-2019) in Virginia. 

Our local bookshop, bbgb books, is facilitating this author visit, and is offering signed and personalized copies of Wish. To purchase books for a student, please visit Holton's ordering page and follow the instructions at the top of the page. 

Please place your orders by Friday, April 11th to guarantee personalization (if requested) and free school delivery of Wish on the day of the author visit. 

You can also preorder Barbara’s upcoming book: Dream (out 8/26) which will not be personalized, and will need to be picked up from bbgb on or after the release date.