I am currently reading the book Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy. This book is the second in a series of three. This story takes place in modern day Portland, Oregon. The main character is a 12-year old vegetarian girl named Prue McKreel. In the first book, her younger brother, Mac, was kidnapped by a murder of crows and taken into "The Impassible Wilderness". She then, along with her friend had to rescue her brother and defeat the evil Dowager Governess who had kidnapped her brother and was going to sacrifice him to the ivy so that she could take over all of Wildwood. In the second book she has returned home but feels an unceasing longing to return to the adventures of Wildwood. Her friend Curtis is still in Wildwood learning to become a bandit and back in Portland his family continues to search for him. An assassin is then sent by unknown adversaries to find and kill her. Curtis comes to her rescue and takes her to the bandit camp so that she will stay safe. ...