Eleven-year-old Maddy must keep herself and her three younger brothers afloat in early 1960s segregated Mississippi during her mother's sudden absence following a family crisis--and despite harrowing circumstances and increasing neglect from her combat veteran father, she is able to find strength, w
The Mulberry Tree
โ Scribed by Allison Rushby
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 279 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Is the eerie tree beside their bucolic cottage really a threat to ten-year-old Immy? Legend and hearsay give way to a creepy series of events in a captivating mystery.
Do naught wrong by the mulberry tree, or she'll take your daughters . . . one, two, three.
Ten-year-old Immy and her family have run away from their storm cloud of problems to a tiny village in Cambridgeshire, England, where her depressed physician father can take a sabbatical and get back on his feet. Luckily, they find an adorable thatched cottage to begin a new life in. But their new home comes with one downside: in the backyard, there is an ancient, dark, and fierce-looking mulberry tree that has ceased bearing any fruit. There's a legend that the towering tree steals away girls who live in the cottage on the eve of their eleventh birthday, and villagers even cross the street when they pass by the house. Of course, Immy thinks this is all ridiculous. But then she starts to hear a...
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