Books with title Wild Woods, The

At the beginning of the 20th Century Izzy Mitchell and her family leave the city for her father's new job in the out in the country. They arrive in Benson to find a dying town clinging to ghost stories about the nearby forest. It was those woods that Izzy's father was sent to cut down for the Greenway Company. It was not long after arriving in Benson that Izzy finds out that the woods are filled with spirits. These were the spirits of departed Native American souls who appear as animals during the day, then wandering ghosts at night. If the Greenway Company has their way those woods will be destroyed and all the spirits inside would be lost forever. Only Izzy can save them by finding the lost waterfall and path to the other side. The Woods is a fantasy story written the same vein as "Spirited Away" or "The Wizard of Oz." A strong young female heroine must do everything she can to save those spirits and herself. This story was written with readers of all ages in mind.

“Who made the squirrels that hide nuts in the wood? Scurrying! Hurrying! Oh tell me, please, before all that fur in the woods makes me sneeze! God made the squirrels that hide nuts in the wood! God is SO good!”God reveals himself to his people–even to little ones!–through the wonders of creation. As children go on a marvelous adventure with skunks, bears, porcupines, and everything in the forest, they are filled with delighted wonder, asking, "Who made the woods?" Filled with charming illustrations and irresistible animal characters that children will look for page after page, Who Made the Wild Woods? teaches children that God made the woods and all the amazing creatures in it…including themselves.

Join Olly the horse, Lionel the lion, Red the fox, and their friends as they embark on three adventures in Thereza Rowe’s vibrant and fantastical woodsThere’s lots going on in the woods . . . Olly the horse is tired of waiting to turn into a unicorn like his friends. Lionel the lion is terribly embarrassed by his hair- loss. And Red the fox won’t come out of her hole because the wedding cake she spent hours preparing has been gobbled up. In these three interlinked stories, Olly, Lionel, Red, and their friends work together to find creative and fun solutions to each other’s problems, and each story ends with the creatures chanting “Be happy now!”Thereza Rowe’s quirky illustrations are stylish and contemporary. Paired with these upbeat stories, they have an extraordinary energy that will appeal to children and their parents. Illustrated in color throughout

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Deep in the Wild Woods is about a child's journey into the forest. He has walked past the path that led to the forest everyday and never took it. When he follows the path he finds many new things, including some animal friends. Along the way he wonders why he never noticed the path or the forest that it led to. At the end of his journey he leaves thankful for taking a new path.

The story begins and ends in a small town in Maine, but within the pages, the characters travel far beyond the mundane. Jack Nielson and his best friend, Lydia, have just reunited after years of separation on their winter break from college. For old times' sake, the two decide to partake in a bit of "innocent" fun: practicing magic in the local forest, of course. As readers will see, there was nothing innocent about their magic—not then, and not now.

Fiction. Young Adult. It's spring break, and 14-year-old Hannah Anderson is spending it with the "Coast-Is-Clear" program, a group committed to cleaning Pacific Rim National Park Reserve's beaches of debris that has drifted across the Pacific from the tragic Japanese tsunami of 2011. Soon after Hannah arrives, Jack, her raven sidekick, discovers something washed up in the surf: a luminous glass ball marked with a strange Japanese character. Immediately, unusual things start to happen, beginning with the arrival of "Kimiko," a Japanese girl with a secret past. Kimiko, it turns out, is part spirit fox (kitsune) and is here to reclaim the source of her power – the glass star ball she lost in the tsunami. Even with her star ball, however, Kimiko's magic is dangerous and unpredictable, and hiding her true identity proves a challenge. But Hannah knows the truth, and with the help of Jack and a mysterious wolf waiting in the forest's shadows, she is determined to help Kimiko find her place in the world.