The Hazel Wood

Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood--the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away--by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: "Stay away from the Hazel Wood."

Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother's cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began--and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.

Don't miss the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, out now, or Tales from the Hinterland, coming January 12, 2021

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 01/30/2018
ISBN: 9781250147905
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/2017 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 11/13/2017
Booklist 11/15/2017 pg. 52
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2017 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2018 - Book Of Special Distinction
Shelf Awareness 01/26/2018
BookPage 02/01/2018
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2018 pg. 76
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 193274 / Hazel Wood
Reading Level: 5.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13