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The mysterious woods of Whistle Root

Eleven-year-old Carly Bean Bitters, an orphan, can only sleep during the day and feels very lonely until she meets a rat, Lewis, and sets off on an adventure to figure out what is threatening the woods and its inhabitants.

Main Author: Pennell, Christopher.
Other Authors: Bond, Rebecca, 1972- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.
Subjects:
Rats > Juvenile fiction.
Owls > Juvenile fiction.
Forests and forestry > Juvenile fiction.
Musicians > Juvenile fiction.
Monsters > Juvenile fiction.
Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Carly Bean Bitters, an orphan, can only sleep during the day and feels very lonely until she meets a rat, Lewis, and sets off on an adventure to figure out what is threatening the woods and its inhabitants.
Physical Description: 215 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9780547792637
0547792638
Author Notes: CHRISTOPHER PENNELL studied briefly at Yale but graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in German and Psychology. The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root was his first novel, which he began writing after he and his wife moved into a house with a small woods behind it and their daughter was born.
REBECCA BOND grew up in the tiny village of Peacham in northeastern Vermont. When she is not having fun painting and writing, Rebecca is busy fixing up her new (to her) old house in a neighborhood in Jamaica Plain, Boston.

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