forests

Seventeen-year-old Avery can remember nothing to explain her parents' violent death in the woods where they live, but after meeting Ben, a mysterious new neighbor, she begins to believe some of the stories she has heard about creatures of the forest.

A poetic portrayal of the cycle of life of trees of a forest as they share thoughts and wisdom over the years.

Discusses the variety of living things in the ecosystem of temperate forest regions and explores the threat human activities pose to the species that live there.

Photographs and text introduce the animals, insects, and plants in a forest.