Title: Grayling's song
Description: In a medieval kingdom, Grayling finds self-confidence when her mother is turned into a tree by evil forces and Grayling must venture into the wilds to reverse the spell.

Grayling's mother, a "wise woman," has been turned into a tree by evil forces. Lacking confidence after years of being called "Feeble Wits" by her mother, Grayling heads off dubiously into the wilds in search of help. There she gets help from weather witch, an aromatic enchantress, a cheese soothsayer, a slyly foolish apprentice, and a shape-shifting mouse named Pook!
Subjects: Magic, Middle Ages, Adventure and adventurers, Healers, Juvenile fiction, Self-confidence, Fiction, Children's fiction, Magic, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Self-confidence, fiction, Middle ages, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General, History, New York Times reviewed