Zera and the Green Man

<p>It’s Zera’s fifteenth birthday but she’s finding little to celebrate.</p><p>Zera’s uncle and guardian “the Toad” and his girlfriend Tiffany are dragging Zera to the grand opening of a GMO fast-food restaurant. On the menu are a few of the Toad’s creations including “beefy fries” created from potatoes engineered with the genes of a cow; potatoes that <em>bleed</em> when sliced and cooked.</p><p>As if a nauseating meal out weren’t bad enough Zera’s in trouble at school for a prank she didn’t do — and her classmates think she is a freak.</p><p>The single light in her birthday will be a gift from her grandmother. A gift that will lead her to uncovering her family’s centuries-old mystical connection to nature — a gift that will lead her to the battle of her life.</p>