Wishtree

by Katherine Applegate

Terrible gossips. Trees? Never met a tree I didn’t like. Well, okay. There’s that sycamore down at the corner.

Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope.

Samar has the look of someone who has seen too much. Someone who wants the world to quiet itself.

Only one percent of a fully grown tree is actually alive at any one time.

It is a great gift indeed to love who you are.

Different languages, different food, different customs. That’s our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden. A few months ago, a new family,

reach higher. But that is how it is when you love life. And I could accept that if my time had come, it had come. After a life as fine as mine, who was I to complain? I was worried about the babies, though, about