Forest Born
core novel 2009 The Books of Bayern
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (28,742 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781599906928 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Forest Born is the fourth novel in Shannon Hale's Books of Bayern series. Rin, a fifteen-year-old girl with the unusual ability to draw peace from speaking with trees, lives with her large extended family in the forest but is privately convinced that something is deeply wrong with her, a fear rooted in childhood guilt over an incident with a young niece and later with a boy named Wilem. Believing the trees themselves have turned away from her because of this shame, and hoping that leaving home might change her the way it changed her brother Razo, Rin travels with Razo and his companion Dasha to Bayern's capital, where she takes up a position as a waiting woman to the queen and is drawn into palace affairs far from the quiet life she has always known.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Books of Bayern
- Series: The Books of Bayern core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Shannon Hale
Notes
- From the series record (The Books of Bayern): Four novels set in the same kingdom, each centered on a different young woman.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Books of Bayern: position 4 of 4: previous River Secrets (2006)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Goose Girl (novel)
- Wikipedia: Enna Burning
- Wikipedia: River Secrets
- Wikipedia: Forest Born
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