The SlabTown Girls: The Whispering Springs

By Katelyn R Scott

The winter moon is high, and the ancient waters are calling their keeper.
Fourteen-year-old Maya has always known that the wilderness is alive. While the settlers of SlabTown hear only the howling winter wind, Maya listens deeper-to the ancient groaning of the hemlocks and the quiet, subterranean rhythm of the hidden springs. She is Anishinaabe, a descendant of the land's true protectors, but her people's history was stripped away by corporate paper long before the first axe ever struck the ridge.
When a greedy timber company plans to dynamite the pristine limestone cliffs of the western ridge, the sacred Whispering Springs face total destruction. To save her people's legacy, Maya must step fully into the role of a brave warrior. Backed by her fierce circle of friends-Liza with her storytelling words and Anna with her powerful colors-Maya rallies an unexpected alliance to break a ruthless corporate lockdown. Can a young native girl use the whispers of the past to unite a divided town and save the soul of the valley before the fuses are lit at sunset?Book One: The Book of SlabTown (Liza's Story)Focus: The Power of Words.The Journey: A young French-Canadian girl learns that curiosity means knowing how to sit quietly and listen. She begins collecting the oral histories of the timber settlement, discovering that the land holds deep, sacred stories long before her family's bumpy wagon ever arrived.Book Two: The Girl Beneath the Cherry Tree (Anna's Story)Focus: The Power of Art.The Journey: A creative Czech/Bohemian immigrant girl fights the crushing weight of survival to claim her identity as an artist. Supported by her society, she paints the raw, beating heart of the community onto the town's gray walls, turning a corporate barrier into a historic landmark.Book Three: The Whispering Springs (Maya's Story)Focus: The Power of Truth and Heritage.The Journey: An Anishinaabe girl steps into her destiny as a brave warrior and keeper of the land. Facing systemic prejudice and a corporate blockade, she uncovers a forgotten treaty to protect a sacred sanctuary, ultimately uniting the entire town and publishing the society's records for generations to come.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDM31ZKC
• ISBN13: 9798191512433
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"