Bøger af Mary Penson

Fourteen-year-old Martha Mary Overstreet only dreams of becoming a doctor until she writes an essay about ""women having a say in their own lives, like choosing whether or not to get married or have children"" - and begins to realize that she can have ""a say"" in her own life.

This is the account of a boy's quest to save an important piece of Arlington, Texas, history and in the process convince his recently widowed grandfather how important he really is. The novel is based on the real efforts to save the Witness Tree in 1991.