Talking to Trees [Paperback]

Kathryn Sullivan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 2006

The highly anticipated sequel to Amber Quill Press's best-seller and 2002 EPPIE Award Winner for Best Fantasy, The Crystal Throne...

Jody Burns takes her brother Peter's silvery bracelet because it looks good with her outfit. Little does she realize it’s the key to another world—until a green-haired girl steps out of midair in the shopping mall and asks Jody to help in a quest to find a wizard or a demon-slayer and rescue her family from a great evil. Jody ignores Peter's warning about the land on the other side of the Watcher—until the haunted tree pulls her inside. Now she’s trapped in a land where no one listens to her, and worse yet, there are no malls!

Peter Burns knows he can help his sister, since he and Jeanne Tucker have special powers in that other world. To aid Jody, they are prepared to return.

But the Watcher has other ideas...

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“Great characters, a fascinating world, a scary villain, griffins and talking trees, what more can a reader ask for...?” --Carrie Masek, author of A Dragon’s Tail

Product Details

• Paperback: 198 pages
• Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (January 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592797601
• ISBN-13: 978-1592797608
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,295,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars terrific young adult fantasy, October 9, 2006

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This review is from: Talking to Trees (Paperback)

Talking to Trees
Kathryn Sullivan
Amber Quill, Jan 2006, $13.50
ISBN: 1592797601

At the mall with her inane friends, teenager Jody Burns notices the oddly dressed girl with green hair pop out of the air. The strange girl comes over to Jody saying she is the one who her ailing Grandma, with assistance from the Keeper of the Gate, sent her to bring back to save their world. Jody's friends leave while she tries to expedite herself from this insane Twylgalitis. Her twin brother's friend Jeanne Tucker arrives followed by Billy. When Billy realizes Jody took his wristguard silver bracelet without his permission, he yells at her, but she being the taller twin is not afraid of him.

The three earthlings assume that Twyl as they call her really needs Billy not Jody. Twyl and reluctantly Jody enter the portal followed by Jeanne, but Billy is blocked. As Jody and Twyl end up in the grove TALKING TO THE TREES, Jeanne heals Grandma and Billy is somewhere in the past. Soon the three humans and their new partner will meet up with wizards and other supernatural beings to confront an ancient evil one that is trying to escape from its imprisonment to destroy the Free Land.

This is the sequel to the CRYSTAL THRONE, a terrific young adult fantasy that besides making the Free Lands and its inhabitants seem real brings an abject lesson of humility to Jody as she detests the way the female Trees treat her as being beneath them because of hair color, skin, and clothing. The story line is action-packed focusing more on Jody's adventures in a world without a mall that she is totally unprepared for and believes the wrong Burns is in the role of hero. Fans of all ages will enjoy her coming of age tale to stop an evil old one from turning the Free Lands into a dead zone.

Harriet Klausner