FARMINGTON — Author Monica Wood will give a presentation and book-signing on her newest book, “The One-in-a-Million Boy,” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at Devaney, Doak & Garrett Booksellers, 193 Broadway.

The book revolves around a friendship between a 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant woman and an 11-year-old Boy Scout obsessed with Guinness world records. For seven Saturdays, the boy has arrived promptly to do Ona Vitkus’s yard chores, record her life story for a fifth-grade school project and talk her into gunning for the record of oldest licensed driver.

On page two, the reader discovers that the boy has recently died. In his place, on the 10th Saturday, the boy’s father reluctantly shows up to complete his son’s good deed. A professional guitar player, Quinn was an absent father who was a little afraid of his sweet, strange son. Through Quinn’s own friendship with Ona, the boy returns to life in ways that offer unexpected detours to people who believed they were through with second chances.

Wood, native of Mexico, Maine, is the author of several highly acclaimed novels, stories and guides to writing. Wood’s memoir “When We Were the Kennedys” was the winner of the Maine Literary Award for memoir in 2013, and was placed on O magazine’s summer reading list. “Any Bitter Thing“ was a New England Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller and was on the ABA Extended Bestseller list for 16 weeks. Her collection of stories about a fictional Maine town, “Ernie’s Ark,” was a Booksense 76 pick and was chosen for the “One Book, One Community” project in Oxford Hills. “My Only Story“ was a finalist for the Kate Chopin Literary Award.

For more information on Wood, visit www.monicawood.com.