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1) Wishtree
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English
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"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.
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English
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Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical forest creatures in this expansion on the author's and illustrator's previous work, A circle of cats.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 69
Language
English
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"Geronimo decides to buy his aunt's old farm where he used to spend the holidays. It's filled with memories from his childhood! There is a large oak tree in the yard that holds legendary secrets to unlock"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Toby's tiny world is under greater threat than ever as Leo Blue holds Elisha prisoner while hunting the Grass People and anyone who stands in the way of his devastating plans for the oak Tree in which they all live, but this time Toby is not alone.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Minty's neighborhood is full of mysteries. One day Minty spots a flash in the woods, and when she chases after it, she discovers a new mystery---a secret tree, with a hollow trunk that holds the secrets of everyone in the neighborhood.
7) Tree girl
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree, despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived at the edge of the sea--especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.
11) The green ghost
Author
Series
Blue ghost series volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While Kaye and her parents are driving during a bad snowstorm to her grandmother's house on Christmas Eve, their car spins off the road and they take refuge in a house where Kaye meets a ghost in a green cloak.
12) The door before
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume Prequel
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Hyacinth Smith moves with her family to a new house, she discovers new friends and powerful enemies, and that her power with trees opens ways between worlds.
14) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
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Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
Author
Series
Regarding the-- volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this story told primarily through letters, Principal Russ wants the middle school trees to be trimmed before his administrative evaluation, but the project is interrupted by a town gender war, dueling chefs, student tree protests, and a surprise wedding.
Author
Series
Maybe Marisol volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard named Peppina...but she's way too scared to climb it. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe"--
18) The story tree
Author
Series
Little legends volume 6
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mayor Fitch has Tale Town on lockdown as he prepares for war with the trolls, for whose magic he will risk everything, but Red, Jack, and the other children are determined reveal the truth.
19) The tree and me
Author
Series
Bea Garcia volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There's a very special 150-year-old oak tree outside the window of Bea's classroom at Emily Dickinson Elementary School. When Bert, Bea's nemesis, climbs the tree, he gets in a lot of trouble--and that leads to even more trouble for everyone. "Concerned" citizens proclaim the tree a hazard and call for cutting it down. But the class won't let that happen, and using Bea's artistic ability, they work out a great plan to save the tree named Emily."--Amazon.com....
20) Matteo
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
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