To get ready for Earth Day on April 22, our feature highlights books that take young people into nature--both close to home and far away--and shows them the world in need of saving. We also review Katie Holten's excellent ode to the planet and its varied microclimates, The Language of Trees, in which she invents "a custom-made arboreal alphabet consisting of hand-drawn trees."
And we have plenty of other reviews, too, including Charles Frazier's The Trackers, which "chronicles the landscape of Depression-era America" as a young WPA artist traverses the country on "a trek of intrigue and danger."
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness