The Voice of the Tree (Books Boys Want to Read)

Holland,, Robert

ISBN 10: 0965852318 / ISBN 13: 9780965852319

Published by Frost Hollow Publishers, LLC, Woodstock, CT, U.S.A., 1997

About this Item

A very nice copy signed by author on title page. Clean, square and tight. Cover bright. ; 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.50 inches; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 2515

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Voice of the Tree (Books Boys Want to Read)
• Publisher: Frost Hollow Publishers, LLC, Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965852318
• ISBN 13: 9780965852319
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Childrens

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Synopsis

Eddie Phelps is a thirteen-year-old hockey player with no slap shot and then one day, walking home from school he takes a shot at a horse chestunut lying on the sidewalk and drives it through a classmate's window. That begins a strange transformation as Eddie discovers that he is descended from a long line of Druid healers. He discovers powers he never knew he had. He discovers that he can hear what the trees are saying. He discovers that he has the power to heal even the most desperate of injuries and diseases. In the process he also discovers that having such extraordinary powers may not be very easy to live with, no matter how great a slap shot you develop.

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Nobody believed him, but then nobody ever believed him. And maybe, at least sometimes, they were right not to believe him because he had, after all, told more than a few whoppers. Eddie Phelps kicked at a shiny brown chestnut lying on the sidewalk and sent it into the tunk of the big tree with a fat smack. All right... He swung his hockey stick down froom his shoulder, lined up another chestnut, and began dribbling it across the sidewalk. Phelps passes to Hondo Johnson, takes a return pass and...SCORE! Yes! Ladies and gentlemen that goal was a work of art, Phelps dropped the pass, blew past his man annnd slapped Hondon Johnson's return pass into the net without stopping. The goalie never had a chance, but that's the kind of play we've come to expect from Eddie Phelps.