Description
A boy, a forest, and the summer that changed everything.
It’s the summer of 1957, and ten-year-old Herbie Hereford is afraid of the woods across the street.
When three neighborhood kids invite him to explore them, he says yes. Together they wade into ponds, track deer, build a boat, and learn to read a wild place that becomes as familiar as home—one of the last remnants of the great eastern forest of the American Midwest.
For Herbie, the woods offer something he can’t find at home, where his father’s silences and sudden anger press on everything. That summer, he learns that courage isn’t only something you find in the forest.
A middle-grade coming-of-age novel about friendship, family, and the wild places that shape us. For fans of Because of Winn-Dixie, Hoot, and Dandelion Wine.
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