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SRC 2024: Books set in a forest or woods for teens

What an adventure summer is! Check out these books set in a forest or woods to help complete your summer reading challenge.

Tacoma Public Library

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  • Ren Monroe is one of the best wizards in her generation, but top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate…
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2023] — YF REINT-S
  • When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan.
    BookNew York : Swoon Reads, 2021. — YF THOMA-A
  • As the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, an uncommonly magical place Aziza El-Amin has bargained with wood nymphs, rescued palm-sized fairies from house cats, banished flesh-eating shadows from the local park. But when a dark…
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, [2023] — YF HASSA-R
  • In this beautifully dark and enthralling YA, four sisters with unusual talents investigate a mysterious disappearance in their secluded Appalachian town. For fans of House of Hollow and Wilder Girls! In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by…
    eBookPenguin Young Readers Group, 2023
  • Juniper and Hadley have a good thing going in Larkspur, spending their respective days apprenticing at a little bakery and performing at the local inn. But when a stranger makes an unusual order at the bakery, the two friends (and Hadley's…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — YG BAKER
  • One girl caught between the freedom she always wanted and a sister she can't bear to leave behind. Under the cover of the Night Forest, will Lucha be able to step into her own power ... or will she be consumed by it? This gorgeous and…
    BookNew York : Make Me a World, [2023] — YF MEJIA-T
  • Suspected of attacking a boy from town and determined to protect her secrets and her twin sister, Jo flees into the woods, where she discovers the truth behind her mother's disappearance fifteen years ago.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2020] — YF ROMAS-M
  • Liselotte, a young lady of noble birth and guardian to twins, picks up and moves to a remote land where, at the easternmost reaches of her new home, lies a forest where it is said witches roam.
    BookNew York, NY : Yen Press — YG LISEL
  • Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as…
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — YF CADOW-K
  • When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
    BookNew York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — YF JACKS-K
  • Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest. Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted…
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — YF SKYE-J
  • After her father's disappearance, Winter takes over guardianship of the now-sinister magical wood behind her house where travelers accidentally slip through its portals.
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2017. — YF BOBUL-C
  • The forest is full of secrets. And who knows them better than Nessa Kurland, a sixteen-year-old cross-country star with a secret of her own: she can transform at will into a werewolf, and her power grows stronger with every moon. Nessa…
    BookWaitsfield, Vermont : Chooseco, [2017] — YF BELL-C
  • Be careful of the dark, dark wood... Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even. Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have…
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2019. — YF ERNSH-S
  • Robyn Goodfellowe and her father arrive in Kilkenny, Ireland, tasked with hunting the last of the wolves, but Robyn's friendship with Mebh, a girl living in the forests and protecting the wolves, threatens everything Robyn--and her…
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [2020] — JG WOLFW
  • Leelo has spent her entire life on Endla, coexisting with the bloodthirsty Forest and respecting the poisonous lake that protects her island from outsiders who seek to destroy it. But as much as Leelo cares for her community, she struggles…
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2022] — YF RUTHE-M
  • Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. They know it's for their own good. After all, the world isn't safe for people with magic. And Derry…
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021] — YF HOLLO-S
  • After years of training to become the queen's next royal spy, Sirscha Ashwyn's plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend Saengo. Then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life. Unveiled as the first soulguide in…
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2020. — YF LEE-L
  • In 1426 in Joseon, a year after her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of thirteen girls, eighteen-year-old Min Hwani returns to the island of Jeju to pick up his trail with the help of her estranged sister.
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021. — YF HUR-J
  • 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…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2018. — YF ALBER-M