cover image TREE CASTLE ISLAND

TREE CASTLE ISLAND

Jean Craighead George, . . HarperTrophy, $5.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-06-000256-5

A 13-year-old boy goes on a human quest for discovery on a homemade canoe in a search in the Okefenokee Swamp for the fabled Paradise Island. The "quasi-mythic" story "combines survival tale, nature study and mystery," wrote PW. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)