num_pages: 368
description: This is Martha Brockenbrough's feminist twisting of the Brother Grimms' stories Game of Thrones-style.Once upon a time there was a kingdom and a forest that liked to eat men and a girl who would change everything but not alone . . .Except-There's no such thing as once upon a time.In a far away land populated by were beasts and surrounded by a powerful forest lies a kingdom about to be sent into chaos. On his deathbed King Tyran divides his land leaving half to each of his two children-so they'll rule together. However his son Albrecht is not satisfied with half a kingdom. And even though his sister Ursula is the first born he decides that as a girl and were bear she is unfit to rule. So he invades her land slaughtering her people and most of the were beasts and claims it for himself. As King Albrecht builds his iron rule and an army of beasts to defend his reign Ursula is gathering the survivors and making plans to take back the kingdom. Not just her half-the whole thing. Because Albrecht should have never been allowed to sit on the throne and Ursula is going to take his crown. And if he's not careful he might not get to keep his head either.
language: English
title: Into the Bloodred Woods
publisher: Scholastic Press