Summergreen
Rebecca Moore
Paperback
(Independently published, Sept. 13, 2019)
"Some legends say that immortals don’t dream, but that isn’t true. Cui dreamed with his feet." Cui’s dreams bring to life the ancient earth: the time when he wasn’t the last of his kind. His dream earth parallels ours, but he can have no effect on our world…or can he? When thirteen-year-old Tracy appears in Cui’s primeval forest of Summergreen, and then later fourteen-year-old Mark, Cui finds many more questions waking in his mind. Does being immortal mean his life can never change?Tracy doesn’t remember her visit to Summergreen. All she knows is that she feels lucky in Jamison’s Wood. And she needs luck this summer, with her dads thinking of moving, the woods and its outdoor theater under threat, and the possibility of meeting her Indian birth-dad. Plus her best friend Brett is finally getting up the guts to make his move. Things are changing, but is change always good?Mark doesn’t remember Summergreen either. He just knows he’s run away from his poisonous twin sister and their oblivious father, hoping for any clue to finding the mother who ran away first. In Jamison’s Wood, he also feels lucky, and may find much more there than he expected. Sometimes, change is the only answer that makes any sense.Mixing humor and heart with a benevolent thread of the supernatural, Summergreen explores characters’ many-layered searches for truth, connection, and family as their lives hover on the brink of change.