Blue: When Hiding Isn't Safe Anymore: A Novel

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. 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?

Author: Caroline Allen
Publisher: Our Street Books
Published: 02/01/2025
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781803416922
ISBN10: 1803416920
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Magical Realism

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.