11-year-old Kyleah Ralston, who lives in a foster home in Kansas, is afraid to make close connections with others because of previous losses in her life. She finds solace in her favorite tree, which she climbs each morning to make a wish on the sunrise. She wishes to become so pretty that her absent father and brother will want her. When she is kept from her tree, she agrees to run away with an older foster brother, Benjamin. She hopes to find her family in Montana. Instead, she finds and accepts herself and forms a close bond with Benjamin as they encounter many dangers and narrow escapes on their trek through Colorado, Wyoming, the Crow Reservation and Montana on their way to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Kyleah’s Tree is an authentic portrayal of the struggles, both real and imagined, faced by a child, who, like all children, just wants a place to belong.

 

Price $12.00