Gold Nautilus Award Mom's Choice Gold Award Independent Press Award Winner IAN Book of the Year Readers' Favorite Gold Award Moonbeam Silver Award Readers' Choice Silver Green Earth Book Award CIBA Gertrude Warner Award Finalist The Wishing Shelf FinalistWhat if a tree asked you to listen—and you did?Twelve-year-old Katie is sitting in class, ignoring her teacher, when the oak tree outside the window asks her to listen. She does—and that sm...

American Book Festival Best Book Award Silver Nautilus Award Moonbeam Silver Award Green Earth Book Award 2025 Readers' Choice 2025 Finalist Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Award North American Environmental Association RecommendedA true story of restoration—told in English and Spanish.In the desolate plains of eastern Colombia, a community called Gaviotas did something scientists said was impossible. Under the vision of Paolo Lugari, they ...

Stolen Voices is thrilling Science Fiction for young adults, suitable for ages 10 and up; explores concepts such as conformity, self-expression, caste systems, and social structures; extremely well suited for classroom and book club discussions. Life in Noveskina is designed to be harmonious and conflict-free. But 15-year-old Miri, daughter of two of the city's Important Officials, faces a shameful dilemma. She has matured with no clear Talent and thus faces life among the lower-classes. As M...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, Ellen Dee Davidson explores what it means to be in conversation with trees. Davidson hikes into an ancient redwood forest on a regular basis and practices “forest bathing”. She reminds us that when we are not bombarded with the noise, bright lights, and electromagnetic fields of a city our nervous system calms down and we open up to a wider field of perception.Davidson is an advocate for the health of forests. Besides her memoir, ...

With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of her past, finally finds release from its curse.And Beauty learns that Beasts can understand more than men.Within these singular, timeless landscapes, the brutal and t...

A decidedly non-Ordinary family (and their talking cat) must embark on a magical mission in this YA fantasy from a #1 New York Times– bestselling author.For any normal teenage boy, having two and a half younger sisters would be enough to deal with. But Simwan Deavy's life isn't normal. His family is non-Ord—short for "non-Ordinary" —which means that at school, he and his sisters learn hexing and enchanting along ...

From Award Winning Author Wendy Altshuler comes Book I in the Evergreen Series:Lost deep in the forest after straying from a family picnic, a boy from post-World War II England befriends an awakened tree from another dimension, and together they must unearth ancient truths to end the war of the trees.From a review of the series: "A fantasy novel meant for young adults but appealing to readers and fantasy fans of all ages, following the adventures of a young boy, his clo...

All 15-year-old Alice and her sisters Emma, Clara and Lily wanted to know was where they came from. Who had brought them to their secluded orphanage home and why did they each wear a mysterious golden pendant? The question seemed simple enough, but when posed to their strict headmistress Ms. Craddock, the girls discover far more than they expected.Now Alice and her sisters find themselves on a dangerous question to free the kingdom of Algernon from the grip of a demon ruler, before...

From Award Winning Author Wendy Altshuler comes Book II in the Evergreen Series: When Christopher became lost in a wood one day, he would never have dreamed that he would meet a walking, talking awakened tree. Where did the tree come from? What was he doing wandering in the wood?Christopher would come to learn the answers to these, and many more questions, when he ventures with the tree through a magical, secret portal. In fact, there are many interdimensional lands connected by th...

Sydney finds himself alive and kicking, after falling from his stalk in Farmer Smith’s field……..then, suddenly he is taken on a wild adventure involving Harry the Hedgehog, Sam Icicle, Percy and Penelope Penguin to bring him to the North Pole. It is only weeks to Christmas, and frightened Sydney doesn’t understand why he could be the answer to Santa’s winter problem……..read on and find out more.

Snuggle up together and enjoy this collection of charming and engaging stories written by Gabby Dawnay and selected especially for five-year-olds by literacy experts.The stories in A Treasury of Tales for Five-Year-Olds are arranged in order of complexity so that the child listening or reading will increase their confidence as they make their way through the book.Most children may not be able to read independently by the age of five, but they can s...

Snuggle up together and enjoy this collection of charming and engaging stories written by Gabby Dawnay and reccomended especially for five-year-olds by literacy experts.The stories in A Treasury of Tales for Five-Year-Olds are arranged in order of complexity so that the child listening or reading will increase their confidence as they make their way through the book.Most children may not be able to read independently by the age of five, but they can start t...