Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman Scholastic and the tree was happy

and the tree was happy

Silky soft bamboo gently designed for sensitive or eczema-prone skin

exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe

Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all

and playful illustrations

Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman Scholastic and the tree was happyWest Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of