Bent Northrop Memorial Library

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...

"A forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other"--

Invites the reader to tap, rub, touch, and wiggle illustrations to make an apple tree bloom, produce fruit, and lose its leaves.

"Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard...

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

Introduction to the life cycle of a tree.

Wilma decides to plant Christmas trees with the help of her young neighbor, Parker.

A twelve-year-old describes his nine-day struggles to survive after being separated from his companions in the mountains of Maine in 1939.

"Rachel and Kirsty are staying at a cozy cabin in the woods for Christmas! But everything is going wrong. Even their Christmas tree is missing! The girls think they know who's causing all the holiday trouble....and they're right! Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen Cheryl the Christmas Tree Fairy's magic tree, star, and gift. Without them, Christmas won't be festive or fun. Can Rachel and Kirsty help Cheryl, or will Jack Frost make this Christmas...

When her beloved forest no longer gives her comfort and her brother Razo invites Rinna to the city to be one of Queen Ani's waiting women, she happily accepts, only to discover her own strength comes from places both expected and unexpected.