Overview
“To Pea, Love Mom”…reads the necklace twelve-year-old Pea finds stuck high in the willow tree Mom had planted long ago on their ranch. Pea doesn't know how it got there. If Mom were alive, she would ask her. But when Pea takes the necklace, the tree reveals a secret tunnel to Willowmere—the magical world built by her mom's stories.
Pea crawls through the tunnel and realizes that Willowmere is crumbling. Frightening dangers lurk behind each tree, and magic is deteriorating into chaos. All she learns seems to contradict everything she knows.
But could Mom still be alive in Willowmere? If Pea can learn to trust her new friends, and harness the power of stories, she might just save the world
But she'll have to save herself first.
Author Bio
Reading into the night after her parents had told her to go to sleep, Andrea once burned her bed's headboard by pressing the lamp into the fabric covering it. She still has a hard time not reading until the sun comes up.Andrea was born and raised in Montana, but after her children were born, she and her husband decided to teach abroad. Since then they've lived in two countries: Indonesia and Latvia. In Indonesia, Andrea loved bike riding through villages, eating Indonesian food, exploring different islands, and snorkeling in the ocean. In Latvia, Andrea can't get enough of the craft markets, art nouveau architecture, sour cream, and forests. The different places she's lived have also inspired her short stories. In the classroom, Andrea's favorite part of teaching is when her students debate about the books they've read. Seeing them dive into the texts and analyze the character's motivations and choices is such fun. She hopes her readers will do the same with her books — but not burn their beds reading them.
