Wildwood
When a murder of crows snatches her baby brother from a Portland playground, 13-year-old Prue chases them into the forbidden forest across the river, a hidden realm of talking animals, bandits, and a grief-mad witch who wants the boy for herself. Prue McKeel is an ordinary Portland kid who doesn’t believe in magic, no matter how many spooky bedtime stories her dad tells about the woods across the St. Johns Bridge. Her parents make her promise never to take baby brother Mac outside. She does anyway. At the school playground, crows gather by the hundreds, grab Mac, and carry him off toward the Impassable Wilderness. Prue pedals after them, accidentally dragging along Curtis, an awkward classmate who talks too much about his role-playing games. The two slip through an invisible barrier into Wildwood, a vast hidden world of uniformed coyote soldiers, owls in waistcoats, bird generals, bureau