The Dreaming Tree
1968

A young adult novel about a boy living in a boarding school; a boy who is bullied by others in the school and who is very lonely and misunderstood. While trying to cope with his various problems, he finds solace in the woods and becomes especially enraptured by a giant old oak, in the hollows of which live a variety of creatures. The boy often climbs to the sturdy uppermost branches where he sits and observes the nature around him. On those high branches he also pretends he is many different things and dreams of what he may one day become. Originally published in hardcover 1968 by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Mass. Never published in paperback.

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