The Wandering Tree, Wimberley Daniel J.

Poverty has a way of stripping childhood of its dignity, a fact of life that Lincoln Chase knows all too well. Wearing thrift store clothes, praying to the gods of adolescence that some loud-mouthed kid doesnt recognize his old shirt. Building up firewood reserves while other boys are out popping fly balls without a care in the world. Its a relentless condition without a single redeeming quality.

Of course, being poor is something that Lincoln has had time to accept. That his father is a convicted murderer, on the other hand... well, thats a fresh wound thatll take some getting used to. And soon enough itll be the least of his problems.

Yet all is not lost. Because in a long neglected hayfield, something extraordinary is happening-something so contrary to human thinking that the rules of possibility begin to unravel. And for a boy like Lincoln, it doesnt merely change the way he sees the world.

It changes everything.