forests and forestry

"When Hansel and Gretel's stepmother ditches the kids and Clementine in the woods, the trio struggles to find their way back, but they stumble upon a mysterious house made of sweets that Clementine can't wait to eat."--.

"When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan"--OCLC.

Explores the history and lore behind forests and caves around the world that are reported to be haunted, including the Bell Witch Cave in Tennessee, Black Forest in Germany, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and others.

When the streams dry out and the food will not grow, Dr. Wangari Maathai starts the Green Belt Movement, a society that encourages the women in rural Kenya to work together and grow trees that will bind the soil, store rainwater, and provide food and firewood.

"Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong"--Back cover.

"When two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--Provided by publisher.

"High in a redwood tree is an unseen world of all kinds of animals. Readers will meet them through rhyming verses as they count them 1 to 10"--Provided by publisher.

Eleven-year-old Ollie comes across a weeping woman next to a river, holding a book and threatening to throw it into the water. Ollie is impulsive, so she plucks the book from the woman's hand and runs off with it. The book is "Small Spaces," and tells a haunting story of a girl, two boys in love with her, and a farm from hundreds of years ago, and a deal with the sinister specter called the Smiling Man, who grants wishes for the ultimate price. Now, Ollie finds herself on a school trip to a local farm with a haunted history.

Robyn Goodfellowe and her father are sent by Lord Protector Cromwell to Ireland in order to destroy the last of the wolves, thought to be dangerous beasts haunting the forests of Kilkenny. Sick of the city's walls, Robyn sneaks out one night only to get caught and then rescued by Mebh, a wild girl who lives with the wolves Robyn's father was sent to destroy. The two girls forge an unlikely friendship in the freedoms of the forest, and when she meets other Wolfwalkers, Robyn decides she must help protect Mebh and her pack family.

A bevy of fantastic characters lurk in the foggy, foggy, forest, including an ogre practicing yoga, a trio of bears sitting on chairs, Red Riding Hood in an ice cream truck, and others.