Wing & Claw #1: Forest of Wonders

<p><strong>From Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park this is a captivating fantasy-adventure about a boy a bat and an amazing transformation. The first book in an enchanting trilogy <em>Forest of Wonders</em> richly explores the links between magic and botany family and duty environment and home. </strong></p><p>Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him every leaf could unleash a kind of magic.</p><p>When an injured bat crashes into his life Raffa invents a cure from a rare crimson vine that he finds deep in the Forest. His remedy saves the animal but also transforms it into something much more than an ordinary bat with far-reaching consequences.</p><p>Raffa's experiments lead him away from home to the forbidding city of Gilden where troubling discoveries make him question whether exciting botanical inventions--including his own--might actually threaten the very creatures of the Forest he wants to protect.</p>