A Forest Calls – Shalini Srinivasan

Description

Forest time is not human time. Forests dream and wake to different rhythms from us.

When Raksha moves to Basavakere at the edge of a wakening forest, she finds a magnificent library, an exciting new quest, and peculiar new maybe-friends. But Savitha seems to prefer studying to adventuring, and Pol is oddly cagey, especially about the forest. Also cagey: the other new resident, a visitor from the past who is sometimes canine, sometimes human, and always mysterious.

When he is kidnapped, Savitha, Pol, and Raksha must brave many dangers, known and unknown to rescue him―steel-limbed ukkukai, strange oceanic beasts, vengeful monarchs, the Creepy Corps, parents, times past and present, board exams, the vast grasping forest, and, looming closer and closer, the future.

An utterly fantastical and magical story, A Forest Calls will touch a chord deep within every reader.