A Forest of Names

A Forest of Names
Author: Ian Boyden
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0819579963

How do we honor the dead? How do we commit them to memory? And how do we come to terms with the way they died? To start, we can name them. When schools collapsed in an earthquake in China, burying over 5,000 children, the government brutally prevented parents from learning who had died. Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. Each poem is a poetic meditation on the image and concept suggested by the etymology in the Chinese characters. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward. July 30 Tiānwēi Celestial Awe He carried no iron into battle. When he lifted his hand, he brandished the sky.

Two Trees Make a Forest

Two Trees Make a Forest
Author: Jessica J. Lee
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1646220005

This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.

The Boy Who Grew a Forest

The Boy Who Grew a Forest
Author: Sophia Gholz
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534138420

2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Notable Social Studies Trade Books list – Winning Title! 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award - Winning Title Florida Book Award Gold Winner Recipient of the 2019 Eureka! Honors Award Winner -Best of 2019 Kids Books - Most Inspiring Category As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng--and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.

Code Name Wolf Girl, Book One: Wolf in the Forest

Code Name Wolf Girl, Book One: Wolf in the Forest
Author: Timothy Mayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980765851

Near the wild national forests of northeastern Pennsylvania, a wolf girl is discovered hiding in a farmer's barn. She is dangerous, beautiful and can't speak. Named "Candy" for the way she gobbles down a chocolate bar, she is transferred to a treatment facility near Pittsburgh. No one knows who Candy is or where she comes from, but the center where she is interred begins round-the-clock psychiatric evaluation. Also, the federal government is very interested in her for reasons which are not clear.Jason is a human behavior specialist with his own practice off the Main Line near Philadelphia. He's always had a fascination with the legend of feral children raised in the wild, such as Mowgli and Tarzan. He's suffering through a bitter divorce when he receives a job offer to become part of the team which is examining "Candy Doe". Jason travels to the center where Candy is kept and immediately takes the job.Months later, through the diligent efforts of Jason and other people, Candy is able to learn human speech and live in a monitored cottage on the center's ground. But she's still very much a wild creature, even if she's all-woman. Jason finds himself developing feelings for her which are not professional. He worries if Candy has feelings for him. But he still can't figure out where she came from and how she ended up in the barn. And why does the federal government have such a deep interest in Candy?

Daughter of the Forest

Daughter of the Forest
Author: Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429913460

Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Forest of Vanishing Stars

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Author: Kristin Harmel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982158948

"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--

Who's in the Forest?

Who's in the Forest?
Author: Phillis Gershator
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781846864766

The sounds of birds and the habits of squirrels, foxes, bear cubs, and owls living in the forest are described in this rhyming story.

The Book of Lost Names

The Book of Lost Names
Author: Kristin Harmel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198213190X

Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Rémy disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war?

Alma and How She Got Her Name

Alma and How She Got Her Name
Author: Juana Martinez-Neal
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536205303

A 2019 Caldecott Honor Book What’s in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; José, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes, too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all — and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. In her author-illustrator debut, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.