AR Book Level
5.3
AR Points
5
Word Count
30,924
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
138722 EN
About this book
Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, uses children for energy and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be its life source.