Katherine Applegate is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning The One and Only Ivan, the New York Times bestselling Crenshaw, the award-winning Home of the Brave, and several bestselling young adult series. Her forthcoming book, Wishtree, features an old oak tree and a crow who help their neighbors embrace their differences.

In this beautiful, nuanced middle-grade novel Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”—people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows, this “wishtree” watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a Muslim family moves in to the neighborhood. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red’s experiences as a “wishtree” are more important than ever. Funny, deep, and warm, this is Katherine Applegate at her very best—writing from the heart, and from a completely unexpected point of view.