- New York Times bestseller, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Missing persons, fiction
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 559
- Publisher
- Balzer & Bray/Harperteen, Canongate, Balzer + Bray
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780857863263
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