Matthew's Forest

Matthew's world-famous scientist parents mysteriously disappear when he is only five, and his Aunt Vesta takes him to live with her in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Now, eleven-years-old, he has come to love his forest home, even though the mystery surrounding his parents weighs heavily upon his heart.

But his quiet world changes the day he encounters Ulima, the strange, toad-not-toad protector of the forest. She tells Matthew he's urgently neede...