The Oaks Of McCord

Southern novel pits grandmother and granddaughter against power brokers in
small town.

When local leaders in McCord, South Carolina plan to cut down dozens of historic
oak trees and widen Main Street for a new manufacturing plant, they don't realize
the danger they are bringing to the town. Against their family's better judgment,
fourteen-year-old Maggie Gordon and her feminist grandmother, Laney, pledge
to save the trees. But Laney fails to consider that an important lesson in civic
responsibility and leadership might have unexpected consequences—like the
criticism she'll endure in her own hometown or the peril her entire family will
ultimately face.