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The Secret of Nightingale Wood

by Lucy Strange

Ages: 9+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Chicken House/Scholastic

ISBN: 978-1-338-15747-5

Keywords: Grief, siblings, Fairy Tales, death, loss

Henrietta, twelve, must find strength in herself, her imagination, and maybe from the witch in the wood, to bring her lost family together again.