Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"A nature-loving little girl's favorite playmate is her maple tree, until the day she's surprised with a baby sister"--

A young boy spends his spring vacation helping his grandpa with the annual ritual of tapping the trees, collecting the sap, and making sweet, sticky maple syrup.

"Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask for her full name. Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors,...

Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...

Welcome to Skunk Hollow, a seemingly tranquil, idyllic town of weathered red barns and rambling white farmhouses, grazing cows in green pastures, and thousands of maple trees, providing their river of golden sweetness every spring. But there's a dark side to this pastoral village. Greenish, long-toothed sapsuckers. Feral sap lines. Genetically modified trees. Follow adventurous investigative reporter Charlotte St. Johnsbury (aka, Ms. Sugar Maple)...

"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means...

Nine-and-a-half-year-old Maple and her older sister, Dawn, must work together to face treacherous terrain, wild animals, and poachers as they trek through Vermont's Green Mountains seeking a miracle for their prematurely-born sister.

A child describes the growth of a maple tree from seed to sapling.