Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood

After walking by this book for months at my school library, I finally picked it up from the town library and read it. I wish I had read it sooner! This intriguing book by Meredith Ann Pierce was excellent. I recommend you read this imaginative novel.

Hannah is a girl who lives on the edge of the Tanglewood, a forest feared by the nearby village. She is under the custody of an evil wizard who lives at the heart of the forest. Once a month, she is forced to make a drink for him from the plants that grow in her hair. Yet she does not rebel until a time when she forgets to make the drink, and the wizard brutally pulls the plants from her hair himself. After that Hannah was careful to give him weak drinks, because pulling all the plants from her hair weakened her. However, she still did not attempt escape until one of the knights spoke to her. Usually, the knights would ride their horses into the depths of the forest, and nothing anyone said or did could stop them. They never came back.
This is a story of Hannah’s quest to save the knight who spoke from a dreadful curse, and on the way find out who she is, for the wizard never told her, and she can’t remember.

Having been reading like crazy, here is a list of books that should be appearing on this blog in the near future:

• A Wizard of the Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Saint of Dragons by Jason Hightman
• Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy
• Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge (the title fits perfectly)
• In the Stone Circle by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (second in the Lord of the Rings)