Overview: In a time of windstorms and wildfires, Blue is a huge tree growing in an ancient forest. Blue’s best friend is Maisie-Grace, a girl with a terrible, beautiful secret. Not only can Maisie talk to trees, she has dreams and visions that come true, a gift she has to hide from everybody.

Verdict: One day, Maisie dreams of loggers coming to cut down her beloved forest. A series of events propels her from the woods, where she has been homeschooled her entire life, to a middle school she doesn’t know.

There she makes unlikely friends with JAX, a paraplegic artist, and Macon, an animal-loving farm girl. The three girls venture into the forest where they get to know the trees, and eventually themselves.

Can they save the forest from being silenced? Will Maisie-Grace come out of hiding and tell people all that she sees? Will she let them silence her, too?

In a day and age where powerful, thought-provoking tales of crucial forethought and insightful decision making is well and truly needed for our younger generation to successfully move forward, along comes Blue: When Hiding Isn’t Safe Anymore, a book that dutifully combines all of that and more for the younger generation to absorb.

Interlocking within a magnificent story line prose and a diligently scattered amount of inspiring messaging, along with clearly showcasing how to build bridges to not only further ourselves mentally, but to build a better future for all, author Caroline Allen has expertly awoken all our spiritual awareness to enable us to think about our connection to the Earth and this most gloriously spun life we exist within.

A transformative, spiritually-hued book, I can honestly say that I read it in just two sittings, but had bed not been calling me that first night, it might have been consumed in one go. For the book is just that good. An effortless read, yet one with such powerful transformations for us to visualize that it is a wonder she managed to create this most deeply colorful world and all that exists within it in just these 216 pages.

Helping us to know our challenges, to be able to handle them accordingly, but moreover to have the courage to step forward, this generational crossover of a story weaves a most beautiful tale of the wisdom of trees, one where if we can teach ourselves to be way more attentive to the roots, the trunks, the branches, the soul of our trees, perhaps we ourselves can walk head held positively high with freshly garnered Mother Nature knowledge into an always uncertain future.

About the Author - Caroline Allen was an international newsroom journalist when a sudden call to give it up left her reeling. She’d spent years giving voice to the voiceless, and now she was being called to find her own authentic creative voice.

With the narrative and characters closely intertwined with nature and climate change, her first four award-winning novels follow one mystic protagonist around the world in search of self-acceptance and purpose. How can she stop running from her gifts and use them to help a world in crisis? She lives in Estacada, OR.

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