The Hazel Wood Novel Book Summer Read Young Adult Nature Or Nurture Theme

"The Hazel Wood" by Melissa Albert tells the story of Alice, a young woman constantly on the run with her mother due to persistent bad luck. Their lives change when her estranged grandmother, a famous author of dark fairy tales, dies, and Alice's mother is kidnapped by a character from those very stories. Alice, with the help of a superfan named Ellery Finch, must venture into the Hazel Wood, her grandmother's secluded estate, and then into the dangerous world of the Hinterland, the setting of her grandmother's tales, to rescue her mother. Condition: New