What is your secret?Minty's neighborhood is full of mysteries. There's the Witch House, a spooky old farmhouse on the other side of the woods from where Minty and her best friend, Paz, live. There's the Man Bat, a seven-foot-tall half man, half bat who is rumored to fly through the woods. And there are the Mean Boys, David and Troy, who torment Minty for no reason, and her boy-crazy older sister, Thea, who acts weirder and weirder.One day Minty spots...

"A nature-loving little girl's favorite playmate is her maple tree, until the day she's surprised with a baby sister"--Provided by publisher.

Invites the reader to tap, rub, touch, and wiggle illustrations to make an apple tree bloom, produce fruit, and lose its leaves.

When a beloved tree gets sick, the human and animal communities work together to give it a new life.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe different leaves and the trees from which they fall.