Rooting for Nature: Speaking Up for the Bats and the Trees
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Sunday, November 17
Next Chapter Tent
Who will speak up for the flora and fauna that share a home with us? Opal B. Flats and Holly Foster will! In Ernest Cline's Bridge to Bat City, thirteen-year-old Opal helps a colony of music-loving bats find a new home in Austin, Texas. Evan Griffith's The Strange Wonders of Roots follows Holly as she stands up against a plastic factory intending to tear down a local grove of trees in the center of a small Vermont town. Learn about these determined protagonists and their relationships with the natural world in this inspiring panel discussion.
- Books: Bridge to Bat City, The Strange Wonders of Roots
- Book Type: Fiction
- Authors: Ernest Cline, Evan Griffith
- Moderator: Jason Neulander
- Book Signing: 3:00 PM at Children's Signing Tent