The story is one to enjoy and to ponder, a breath of the forest-a delight.”-Barbara Helen Berger, Author of Grandfather Twilight “In Tree Girl, T.A.

Barrons out there.”-Rosemary Wells, Author of Mary on Horseback “ Tree Girl is sprightly, magical, and wise. will respond to underlying themes of self-reliance, rebellion, and the search for self-knowledge.”- Booklist “Behind Tree Girl is the author's bone deep belief in the holiness of our earth and the children and trees on it. Barron books, there is a great deal of wisdom and humor - and an unforgettable hero.'- Madeleine L'Engle Newbery Winner, A Wrinkle in Time “Barron portrays … with subtlety and originality. This refreshing novel in which the heroine overcomes hardship, sticks to her ideals and is satisfied with what happiness life brings her is carried off without sticky sentimentality, Machiavellian wickedness or salacious sex scenes.Boulder, Colorado“Barron is a wonderful storyteller, a maker of myths and fables who creates magical places where characters learn wisdom and power.”- School Library Journal ' Tree Girl will surely delight its readers. When a young Polish piano prodigy languishes in neglect, Susanna manipulates the coup that makes Sigi the sweetheart of Europe. She is the secret mistress of an aristocratic field marshal who, when Madensky Square and Susanna's salon are threatened by city planners, manages to avert the disaster. Susanna's story is not unusual: eloping with a soldier in her teens, she bore a daughter whom she gave up for adoption, an act that is the tragedy of her life.

The diary records Susanna's concerns, hopes and memories, her succinct, witty and sometimes scathing opinions of her neighbors, customers and rivals, and her generous charity toward those she loves. Susanna, a fashionable dress-maker whose salon is in quiet Madensky Square, decides on the first spring day to keep a journalto which the reader is privy. Set in Imperial Vienna in 1911, this novel by the author of A Company of Swans mingles humor and poignancy.

Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson