Where the Moss Grows Thick (Ages 8–12)

Ella Colby didn't ask to leave Birmingham for a crumbling farmhouse in the Welsh countryside—and she definitely didn't ask to find a secret amphitheater hidden in the woods, its ancient oak carved with a hundred years of children's names. But when she and her new friends set out to revive a lost tradition, they unearth a buried tin of letters and a decades-old family secret that threatens to tear everything apart before it's even begun. To save what they've started, Ella must find the courage to face the past head-on.