{ "item_title" : "The Threshold of the Beech Tree", "item_author" : [" Bessie Garnet "], "item_description" : "Summary OverviewArrival and Discovery: Twelve-year-old Lily and her parents arrive at Great-Aunt Piper's historic Kentucky home, which is shaded by an ancient beech tree. While exploring, Lily finds a leather-bound book belonging to her great-aunt that contains a silver necklace with a four-leaf-clover pendant. When she puts it on, she gains the Sight, revealing a hidden magical world of nature spirits, water-folk, and a guardian known as the Ghillie Dhu.The Border War and Truce: Lily quickly finds herself in the middle of a territorial conflict between the Scottish Ghillie Dhu and native, thorn-wrapped spirits who resent the foreign beech tree. Using her great-aunt's book and quick thinking, Lily successfully brokers a peace treaty based on mutual respect and boundary maintenance.Forging Alliances: When a heavy downpour threatens both the native burrows and the beech tree's roots, Lily, the Ghillie Dhu, and the native thorn-spirits work together to clear a blocked culvert and prevent a flood. This shared peril turns their fragile truce into a solid alliance.The Autumn Crisis: As the seasons change, the autumn frost triggers a seasonal madness that drives the native spirits to attempt a breach of the Core Anchor-a magical vault hidden beneath the root cellar meant to keep the worlds in balance. Lily and the Ghillie Dhu confront the spirits during a siege at the cellar, and Lily successfully uses the pendant and her great-aunt's notes to help the spirits calm down and reseal the vault.The New Keeper: Having convinced her parents to keep the property as a weekend home for at least another year, Lily fully embraces her new role as the Keeper of the Threshold. The story concludes as spring-like or post-storm magic continues to reveal new surprises in the valley, including an encounter with a disgruntled leprechaun needing help by the stream.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/759/9798177597935_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "7.99", "online_price" : "7.99", "our_price" : "7.99", "club_price" : "7.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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