Asterwood

By Jacquelyn Stolos

A girl discovers a magical world needing her help, revealing hidden family secrets.

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272 pages

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Ten-year-old Madelyn stumbles into Asterwood, a magical realm behind her home. With new friends and her cat, she must uncover family secrets and save this enchanting world. Can she rise to the challenge?

From the publisher

Family secrets, friendship, and magic burst from the seams of this thrilling fantasy adventure that follows a ten-year-old girl as she discovers a new world behind her home in desperate need of her help and within it, her own troubling family legacy. Madelyn has always been satisfied with her life of cozy meals, great books, and adventures with her father in the woods behind their farmhouse. But when a mysterious child appears and invites her down a forbidden trail and into a new world, Madelyn realizes that there’s far more to life than she ever allowed herself to realize. This new world, Asterwood, is wider, wilder, and more magical than she could ever imagine. And somehow, it’s people know who she is–and desperately need her help. Accompanied by new friends–one who can speak the language of the trees and one with a mind as sharp as her daggers–and her calico cat, Dots, Madelyn embarks on an epic quest across a strange and sprawling forest world whose secrets just might help her save her own.

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