Rowan+Hood

=Rowan Hood = //**Copyright**// © 1995- 2009 Mid-Continent Public Library. = __Rowan Hood__ by Nancy Springer is a book about a girl who lives in the forest with her mother in medieval England. One day when she is picking up roots for her healer mother, she feels that something's wrong and runs to her village and sees thats it's destroyed, along with her mother. Then she begins her long journey to find her father... //Robin Hood.// On her adventures she almost starves to death because its hard to catch hares and deer with wooden arrows. She also ends up wanted by a bounty hunter for holding a weapon and aiming it at his face after he tries to take it by force. On her journeys she meets a wolf dog, a harp player with a very childish face, and a kind duchess who helps them. While she's sleeping she hears fairies talking to her because her grand mother is a fairy. Later, Rowan tries to be an outlaw, but she ends up becoming a healer like her dead mother. = // I learned that in medieval times bounty hunters or any one of the king's men could pull you over and take away anything that could be considered a weapon, including knives, blunt swords, and wooden arrows that couldn't be used for anything except killing/eating an animal. This story is a bit strange since almost everyone that Rowan meets on her journey ends up helping her in the end, which is very cliché. Also, her having a grandmother who's a fairy seems to be in every fantasy book about the middle ages about a girl. I sort of recommend this book for both boys and girls, but more likely girls would like it. I think that I would like to continue studying Robin Hood and His band of merry men. It seems to be very weird that everyone loves him yet everyone in town was there for his hanging. Also did he give any money to any poor people?

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