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Twelve-year-old Abbie Keegan loves spending time in the woods behind her house and watching the silly-looking baby robins as they grow. The woods are a retreat from her parents' constant bickering and from her sweet, but needy, little brother.
Then Abbie sees two boys breaking bottles in the pond. She refuses to allow such harm to "her" woods. However, every attempt she makes to stop the boys only provokes them to greater destruction. Her retreat becomes a place of fear instead of peace. A feud is born, and Abbie feels helpless to stop it. At home, her parents seem close to divorce and her brother's asthma is getting worse. How can Abbie protect the people and places she loves?
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nature, family, conflict, fear, protection, resilience, environment, helplessness, responsibility, perseverance
Whenever her parents fight at home, Abbie escapes to the woods for peace. After one of their fights, Abbie goes to the woods and finds two boys, Brook and Colin, breaking glass bottles. Brock is the school bully. Abbie scares them away to protect her precious woods and the nesting birds. However, this sparks a feud between her and the boys. When Abbie and her brother Patrick overhear their parents fighting, they realise their parents might divorce. This prompts Abbie and Patrick to find a way to keep them together. As things continually get worse, Abbie keeps praying to God for help. However, nothing seems to be happening. A powerful story about God's faithfulness through challenging family circumstances.
