AUBURN — Skylar Rubecki, a seventh-grader at Auburn Middle School, is this year’s winner of the annual Auburn Book Project. She wrote and illustrated “The Wishing Rock” while participating in an enrichment activity at Park Avenue School last year.

Rubecki, who hopes to become a doctor, said she got the idea for her book from a dream. “I thought about wishing and how wishing shouldn’t be greedy,” she said, according to a press release from Auburn teacher Joan Simard. “You should save wishing for really important things, like wishing for family members to survive cancer.”

Rubecki said her illustrations were inspired by thoughts of the dream’s setting, an old house.”I imagined an old house and I pictured wood, in an old attic.” The book explores how a wish came true, but not quite the way the wish was imagined.

Rubecki will be honored at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, in the Children’s Room Alcove at the Auburn Public Library. The public is invited to meet her and nine finalists. They are Anna Beaudet, Alexis Tremblay, Adrianna Starbird, Spencer Dunn, Chloe Dwinell, Gareth Robinson, Trevor Laliberte, Auna O’Leary and Michal Cwik.

The public is invited to stop by Waldenbooks at the Auburn Mall to meet Rubecki as she signs copies of her book from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday. Her books will be available for sale, and they will be circulated in Auburn school libraries.

The Auburn Book Project is celebrating 10 years of promoting writing while simulating the world of publication for Auburn fifth- and sixth-graders.

Original books are submitted in the spring for the annual publication of one selection in the fall. Judges have included local librarians, art specialists, bookstore managers, Maine authors, literacy specialists and former high school English teachers.