Christie, Michael

"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar,an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for oneof her endless series of environmental protests: attempts atatonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violenttimber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the criesof an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades"--Provided by publisher.

Having spent his childhood confined indoors with his creative yet highly agoraphobic mother, Will experiences the outer world for the first time when he sets foot outside at the age of eleven. Soon, he is attending school, making friends, and learning to skateboard, but his family's past and the source of his mother's condition soon come back to haunt him.

Olive, an orphan reindeer who lives at the North Pole, enjoys helping get the presents ready for Christmas Eve but dreams of joining the team of deer pulling Santa's sleigh on the Big Trip.