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Tree Girl

by Ben Mikaelsen

A journey from the Guatemalan forests toward safety

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A journey from the Guatemalan forests toward safety

Gabriela, known as Tree Girl for her affinity with the branches above her Guatemalan village, witnesses a massacre from a tree. With her family and community gone, she joins refugees heading toward the Mexican border, holding on to the possibility of finding her younger sister, Alicia. The journey brings physical dangers and hunger as Gabriela searches for safety and confronts what remains of her sense of identity. The novel’s historical-war setting frames a personal story of displacement, loss, family bonds, and the struggle to imagine a life after violence.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers interested in historical fiction set amid conflict and displacement.
  • Readers seeking stories about family separation, survival, and identity.
  • Readers interested in a young protagonist’s search for safety and a missing sibling.

Themes

Displacement and refugeFamily separationSurvivalIdentity after violence

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Book overview

They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests.
Then one day from the safety of a tree, Gabi witnesses the sights and sounds of an unspeakable massacre. She vows to be Tree Girl no more and joins the hordes of refugees struggling to reach the Mexican border. She has lost her whole family; her entire village has been wiped out. Yet she clings to the hope that she will be reunited with her youngest sister, Alicia. Over dangerous miles and months of hunger and thirst, Gabriela's search for Alicia and for a safe haven becomes a search for self. Having turned her back on her own identity, can she hope to claim a new life?
Ages 12+
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