Mapaline, #1

Book One of the captivating world of the Treeborn Trilogy

Mapaline, the wildly adventurous daughter of the Maple family, is faced with a dangerous quest that will leave her family and friends at risk—but may save them all.

Mapaline was a child, very much like yourself.

Well, perhaps not so very much. Unless you live in a deep, vast wilderness of forests and rivers and streams; unless you sleep in a small room, hung high up in the limbs of an old maple tree; unless you stand no taller than my kneecap and have hair that changes with the seasons, you are not so very much like Mapaline.

She was a treeborn, and if you saw her you would think, “Isn’t she a pretty little girl. But . . . somehow—”and you would feel silly saying it—”somehow she makes me think of a tree. Not very much, but still . . .”