Wildwood

by Colin Meloy

Rating: ****(4 stars)
Age group: 10 1/2+
Type: Fantasy

Prue is out walking with her baby brother, Mac, when suddenly a murder of crows captures him and takes him into the Impassable Wilderness, a place where no person has ever dared to go. But Prue must rescue him so she ventures in. It turns out that her friend, Curtis, has followed her in. But an attack by talking wolves in soldiers' uniforms separates the two. Curtis ends up with Alexandra, the Dowager Governess, who seems actually pretty nice. Prue ends up with a postal officer. But they still have to find Mac, and then they have to escape from the animals of the Impassable Wilderness... who may or may not want to kill them. This book is really, really, really well written. However it is REALLY sad and actually it almost made me cry. There are also some parts that make it seem like a dead end. But still, it is VERY exciting.
PARENTAL SECTION 
Sexual parts: no
Violence: yes. There is a war and some bloody parts.
Fighting: yes; see violence.
Pregnancy: not really. Not actual pregnancy.
Kissing/romance: no.
Stealing: not really.
Vandalizing: not really.