|a"When seventeen-year-old Jade Reynolds witnesses a violent clash between a protesting tree sitter and a local logger, she runs as far as she can from the battles that plague her home and from the mysteries of the redwood forest. But the ancient redwoods are embedded in her psyche―she feels their call even in the dark and forgotten back alleys of Portland, Oregon where she’s hiding out. She soon becomes entangled with a lovable misfit and a band of radical slackers, environmentalists,and anarchists, and finds herself living 100 feet high in the canopy of a redwood grove, trying to decide whose side she&life or the environmentalists who are risking their lives for thefuture of the forest. To find a way beyond the division between Us and Them, Jade turns to the ancient trees themselves&of cover.