\u2018In this luminous story full of mystery and magic, Elana K. Arnold weaves a shimmering tapestry about the lovely and surprising ways we\u2019re connected to each other. Heart-healing, hopeful, and wonderfully inventive, this beautiful novel by a master storyteller is not to be missed.\u2019 \u2013 Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal-winning author of The One and Only Ivan.<\/p>\n
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. And for as long as he can remember, the old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. That is, until a new family \u2013 with a particularly annoying girl his age \u2013 moves into the neighboring house and, without warning, cuts it down.<\/p>\n
Oak doesn\u2019t understand why her family had to move to Southern California. She has to attend a new school, find new friends, and live in a new house that isn\u2019t even ready \u2013 her mother had to cut down a tree on their property line in order to make room for a second floor. And now a strange boy next door won\u2019t stop staring at her, like she did something wrong moving here in the first place.<\/p>\n
As Oak and Alder start school together, they can\u2019t imagine ever becoming friends. But the two of them soon discover a series of connections between them \u2013 mysterious, possibly even magical puzzles they can\u2019t put together. At least not without each other\u2019s help.<\/p>\n
Award-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with an unforgettable story of the strange, wondrous threads that run between all of us, whether we know they\u2019re there or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":384116,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[5931,5932],"featured":[],"topic_themes":[406,410,398,397,403,404,405],"teacher_resources__pdf":[],"age_group":[453,454,519,871],"australian_curriculum_learning_a":[4443,4449],"text_type":[455],"by_author":[5933,5934],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/181142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/181142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272508,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/181142\/revisions\/272508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"topic_themes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic_themes?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"teacher_resources__pdf","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher_resources__pdf?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"age_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age_group?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"australian_curriculum_learning_a","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/australian_curriculum_learning_a?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"text_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/text_type?post=181142"},{"taxonomy":"by_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/by_author?post=181142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}