Inside a Hollow Tree

Inside a Hollow Tree is a Readers Favorite Award winning, 5-star rated novel that deals with the issues of child abuse, neglect, and bullying at an all-boys boarding school.

Dalton Hobby is a very unusual 14-year old boy. Made a ward of the State after his mother dies and his father disappears, he never smiles or speaks. As he is bounced from one foster home to another because of his troubled personality, his caseworker finally gets an idea: send him to an all-boys boarding school, where he will at least have continuity throughout the school year. On a rainy afternoon, Dalton arrives at Capling Hall School for Boys carrying a small yellow suitcase and a large green garbage bag filled with a lifetime of dark and wonderful secrets, which he promptly hides inside the hollow of a dead tree. One by one, the contents of that bag are revealed, revealing just how extraordinary Dalton Hobby really is.