![]() ![]() Samar, the daughter in this family, is a quiet, lonesome girl, who like so many others, sits beneath Red’s canopy and befriends the old tree. ![]() The mean-spirited graffiti is a message directed at a new Muslim family who moved into the neighborhood. One day Red’s world forever changes when someone carves the hateful word “leave” into its trunk. As time wore on, the tradition spread until every year people from various ethnicities adorned Red with their wishes. The tradition in Red’s neighborhood started when, Maeve, a lonely Irish girl, hung her wish from one of Red’s branches. A wish tree or raggy tree is an old Irish custom where, on the first of May, people write their wishes onto strips of fabric and tie them to the limbs of a tree. During this time, the wish tree has witnessed many newcomers’ plights as they struggled for acceptance among the established residents.Įarly on in her lifetime, Red became a wish tree. ![]() Red is a two hundred-sixteen-year-old northern red oak that has lived in a typical American neighborhood all of its life. Katherine Applegate’s children’s novel, Wishtree, is a heartwarming story, told in the first person point-of-view of the character named Red. I borrowed a copy of this book from the free library. Publisher – Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLCįormat – hardback, Kindle, paperback, library binding, audible audiobook ![]()
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