Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

Nancy Springer. Philomel Books, $16.99 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-399-23721-8

Nancy Springer's third volume of Tales of Rowan Hood, Outlaw Princess of Sherwood, follows the band of teenage outlaws led by the daughter of Robin Hood, as they take in a new member-a princess who has fled the prospect of a horrible arranged marriage. Now the king will do anything to get his daughter back-even put her mother in a cage in the forest, as bait.

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