Books with title The Tamarack Tree

Growing up in Western Montana meant hunting, and fishing, and jumping in the creek. Friendships are everything. Life is simple. But the summer before Carter Erlundson's 8th grade year, a new girl moves into town. She is cute, and fun, and an environmentalist. Carter has to balance his interest in her with his best friend, Eddie, who can’t stand her. But Eddie has troubles of his own that quickly overwhelm him, and Carter is confronted with a loss so huge, he feels he must be responsible for it. With one tragedy barely behind him, he is confronted by a quickly moving forest fire and must make life and death decisions. Family, friendship, and faith are tested, by feelings of guilt and shame as Carter discovers he is not the only one who has reason to feel guilty.

Growing up in Western Montana meant hunting, and fishing, and jumping in the creek. Friendships are everything. Life is simple. But the summer before Carter Erlundson's 8th grade year, a new girl moves into town. She is cute, and fun, and an environmentalist. Carter has to balance his interest in her with his best friend, Eddie, who can’t stand her. But Eddie has troubles of his own that quickly overwhelm him, and Carter is confronted with a loss so huge, he feels he must be responsible for it. With one tragedy barely behind him, he is confronted by a quickly moving forest fire and must make life and death decisions. Family, friendship, and faith are tested, by feelings of guilt and shame as Carter discovers he is not the only one who has reason to feel guilty.

Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures of a Southern young lady, the tensions between North and South have developed into civil war. Because she is English, Rosemary brings an outsider's perspective to the issues that sparked the conflict, but nonetheless she is torn between her sense of outrage at the very idea of slavery and her feelings for the Southerners she has come to love. For Rosemary, her brother Derek, and their American friends -- old and young, white and black -- the disastrous siege of Vicksburg comes as a crucial test of courage and the will to survive.Once again, Patricia Clapp has created a heroine of wit, charm, and indomitable spirit in a vividly evoked historical setting.

At the heart of this timely and imaginative tale is a theme of stewardship. From oceans to endangered animals, readers can't miss the message to love the planet. This is the first in the Earth-friendly series, Tales Of The West Wind. After a rogue wave destroys a zoo-bound ship, the crew is lost at sea, and the animals must find a way to survive on their own. Kosmo, a silverback gorilla, befriends a snow leopard, and they make their way to a tiny island with the help of a dolphin. Joined by a great green macaw and Simon, an orphaned fruit bat, this unlikely group sets out to explore their new surroundings. While deep in a cave, they accidentally discover an extraordinary tree. Huge glowing flowers hang from the branches and contain an ancient and powerful magic that changes each of them forever. In spite of their new found powers, the animals long to go home, but when plastic bottles begin washing up on the beach, their quest to find a way off the island becomes one of life and death.