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When the fates of a snow leopard, a child, and an ancient forest collide, the unimaginable can happen. Perfect for fans of Pax and The One and Only Ivan."Reads like a classic. I loved it!" -Pam Muñoz Ryan, author of the bestsellers Esperanza Rising and the Newbery Honor book Echo "Wildoak makes us believe the world may well be as mysterious and as lovely and as possible as we had hoped." -Gary D. Schmidt, author of Just Like That and the Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars Maggie Stephens's stutter makes school especially hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class or calling attention to herself. So when her unsympathetic father threatens to send her away for so-called "treatment," she reluctantly agrees to her mother's intervention plan: a few weeks in the fresh air of Wildoak Forest, visiting a grandfather she hardly knows.