October 4, 2025 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Telling Tales Festival

Royal Botanical Gardens

Preteen Tent (Ages 9-12)

Age / Grade 9-12 / Grades 4-6

Join New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, Wesley King in the Preteen Tent for a 45-minute session featuring a reading and accompanying activities on theme with his latest middle grade novel, Benny on The Case. Follow the story of a boy with Mosaic Down syndrome who navigates entering a mainstream classroom, making new friends, and standing up to bullies all while trying to catch a thief and save his home in this thrilling middle grade mystery.

Following the presentation, meet Wesley and get your book signed at Epic Books’ Autograph Tent.