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"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--

"In the northeastern region known as the Great North Woods, day dawns with quivering aspens, waters teem with life, forests prowl with predators, and nature is celebrated in rhyme"--Provided by publisher.

Fable, the half-human daughter of the Queen of the Deep Dark, and her friends, the human and goblin brothers Cole and Tinn, discover that humans are destroying the Wild Wood, breaking the unspoken truce between the people of Endsborough and the inhabitants of the Wild Wood and leading them to war.--

In the early 1960s, Kitty is one of only two white children in her class on Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, where her father is a government forester, and although past injustices and pain are still very much alive there, she eventually finds friendships and opportunities to make a difference. Includes map, author's note, glossary, and pronunciation guide.