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Books with title Where the Forest Meets the Sea

  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars

    Glendy Vanderah

    eBook (Lake Union Publishing, March 1, 2019)
    An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.
  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars

    Glendy Vanderah

    Paperback (Lake Union Publishing, March 1, 2019)
    An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.
  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars

    Glendy Vanderah

    Hardcover (Lake Union Publishing, March 1, 2019)
    An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.
  • Where the Forest Meets the Stars

    Glendy Vanderah, Lauren Ezzo

    MP3 CD (Brilliance Audio, March 1, 2019)
    An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.
  • Where the Forest Meets the Sea

    Jeannie Baker

    Paperback (Gardners Books, June 30, 1989)
    When a young boy visits a tropical rain forest, he pretends it is a long time ago and that extinct and rare animals live in the forest, and aboriginal children play there. But how much longer will the rainforest remain, he wonders?
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  • Where the Forest Meets the Sea

    Jeannie Baker

    Hardcover (Greenwillow Books, May 16, 1988)
    My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia.We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when extinct and rare animals lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders?Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization.
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  • Where the Forest meets the Sea

    Joshua Waits

    language (, Oct. 19, 2018)
    Caleb is spending the summer before 8th grade in the middle of nowhere, with his father who he hasn't seen in years and a new family he's never met. But soon he finds that the wild expanses of Oregon have stranger things than step-siblings, and life isn't always what it seems.
  • Where the Forest Meets the Sea

    Deborah McNemar

    eBook
    Ten years have passed since civil war tore the Northern kingdom apart. Though peace has been declared, it is a fragile thing and new currents threaten to sunder bonds of blood and friendship. When Duke mac Cuill is taken by Southern runners, his friends must find and free him before poisoned whispers destroy the elven alliance forever. The elven scout, Gwendyrion, searches for his friend but fights a silent war of his own against the whispers of the sea that threaten his sanity. Giles, newly trained wizard and ward of Duke mac Cuill, heads south by land, determined to save the only person he calls family. But his magic has taken on a life of its own. Neither can walk away but saving their friend may ultimately destroy them both.
  • Where the Forest meets the Sea

    Joshua Waits

    Paperback (Independently published, Oct. 20, 2018)
    Caleb is spending the summer before 8th grade in the middle of nowhere, with his father who he hasn't seen in years and a new family he's never met. But soon he finds that the wild expanses of Oregon have stranger things than step-siblings, and life isn't always what it seems.
  • Osa Where the Rainforest Meets the Sea

    Trond Larsen, Photographs by Roy Toft

    Hardcover (Zona Tropical Publications, April 20, 2010)
    In a remote and lush corner of Costa Rica, lies a realm of giant trees, roaring monkeys, jaguars on the prowl, and breaching whales. This is on the the last places on Earth where virgin rainforest grows right to the high tide line, and a visitor might walk for hours - or days - along its isolated coast without meeting a single person. This the the Osa Peninsula and there is no other place in the world like it. In Osa: Where the Rainforest Meets the Sea, award winning photographer Roy Toft and ecologist Dr. Trond Larsen combine photographic art and scientific knowledge to portray the beauty, complexity, and uniqueness of the Osa Peninsula.
  • Where the Sea Meets the Sky

    Peter Bently

    Hardcover (Hodder Children's Books, May 28, 2020)
    Little Sophie the sea otter gazes at the horizon and asks her mum, "What's at the place where the sea meets the sky?"Sophie's mum says that no one can reach the horizon, and no one should try. But Sophie reckons it doesn't look that far! She sets off on an exciting journey, meeting all sorts of sea creatures on the way - walruses and whales, lobsters and starfish . . . and someone a little more dangerous . . .A beautiful rhyming underwater adventure, stunningly illustrated by talented debut artist Riko Sekiguchi, winner of the 2018 Carmelite Prize.
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  • where the forest meets the sea

    Jeannie Baker

    Paperback (Scholastic, Jan. 1, 1987)
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