Books like Rowan Hood Returns (Rowan Hood #5) by Nancy Springer
In the fifth book of the Rowan Hood series, Nancy Springer follows the compassionate healer Rowan Hood as she confronts the brutal past that haunts her. Rowan, who has spent two years waiting for justice, now turns her powers toward vengeance against the men responsible for her mother’s death. Leaving the safety of her Rowan Grove in Sherwood Forest, she and her friends set out on a dangerous quest. Along the way, Rowan wrestles with the tension between her desire for retribution and the healing she has come to embody, making her journey as much internal as it is external.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Nancy Springer
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