forests and forestry

"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.

A lonely fox develops an unlikely friendship with a star, whose rays help him forage for food, dance in the rain, and keep him warm.

"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.

Little Critter visits the woods and enjoys learning about all the woodland creatures he finds.

"Kerry gets lost on his way home and has to navigate through a fantastical forest to find his way out, only most the creatures in the forest are not there to help him"--Provided by publisher.

When her friend Link Miller is found drowned in a forest far away from the nearest source of water, Noemi Amato is haunted by his death, because she knows he drowned in a lake only she can see. When her mother's boyfriend and his son Jonas move in, Noemi begins to trust him and eventually reveals what's happening to him and to Link's younger sister, Amberlyn. Together, they try to make sense of what appear to be text messages from Link, while they seek to understand who they are and their place in the world.