Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rain clouds.
After years of traveling the world with her parents and older sister, Claude, Joy and her family move to the UK, and in with her grumpy, rule-obsessed grandpa. Despite her excitement about attending school for the first time, Joy finds the new adjustments a bit harder than she expected.
It's just as Joy finds her usual irrepressible positivity and zest for life waning that she discovers a plan to remove her school's mighty oak tree, and in her determination to fight back discovers the depth of her own courage, the fierceness of her own conviction, and the power of human connection.
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Paperback book.
224 Pages.
Ages 9 years and up.
