The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines

Eleven-year-old Jerry Blum, who uses a wheelchair, has spent years moving with her mother from one run-down motel to the next since her father died. Their latest stop is the Slumbering Giant motel, where strange lights flicker in the trees, a mysterious radio station broadcasts at midnight and people disappear into the woods. Jerry's mother keeps leaving for special work she will not explain, and one morning she does not come home. Armed with a Renaissance fair sword, a backpack, her imaginary pocket-sized dragon Paul and a new friend named Chapel, Jerry heads into the forbidden forest to find her. Mo Netz's middle grade fantasy is full of mystery and humor.