One mystical tree. One dangerous neighbor.Strange and magical things continually occur at the Hall family's home at 40 Walden Street. Now there's a terrible sound throughout the town of Concordthe buzzing of a chain saw. Only one thing is worse for Eddy and Georgie Hall than that noise: the man who causes it, Mortimer Moon. When all the trees in town are falling to his hand and he threatens the mysterious tree sprouting in the Halls' backyard, Georgie and Eddy will do anything to stop him.In the eighth installment of the Hall Family Chronicles, secretsall caused by the growth of a miraculous treewill be unlocked.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by HarperCollins .

Jane Langton has retold the legend with her usual lucidity and grace, and Ilse Plume, an Italophile and the illustrator of three previous Godine books, has supplied illustrations that glow with the intensity of Renaissance jewelry. A perfect gift for anyone who embraces the relationship between man and the natural world.