Wildwood : Colin Meloy

Paperback | JUVENILE FICTION/Fantasy / General Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illustrated by) Series: Wildwood Chronicles The first book in the New York Times bestselling adventure series from Colin Meloy, lead singer of The Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, the acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society Prue McKeel’s life is ordinary. At least until her brother is abducted by a murder of crows and taken to the Impassable Wilderness, a dense, tangled forest on the edge of Portland. No one’s ever gone in—or at least returned to tell of it. So begins an adventure that will take Prue and her friend Curtis deep into the Impassable Wilderness. There they uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval—a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater, as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness.