# Willa of the Wood

**Author:** Robert Beatty
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 376
**Genre:** Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781368005845`
**ISBN-10:** `1368005845`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/willa-of-the-wood
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Willa, a young night-spirit of the Faeran, lives hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains as the human settlers close in — until a betrayal within her own clan and a sickness spreading through the forest force her into the outside world to discover what is really killing the wild. Robert Beatty's atmospheric grades 4-7 fantasy pairs an Appalachian setting with a fierce outsider heroine.

## Themes

- nature
- courage
- identity
- family

## Where this book is assigned

### Battle of the Books (state reading programs)

- **recommended** · 4th grade · North Carolina — [source: NCSLMA Elementary Battle of the Books 2025-2026 (Grades 3-5)](https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=14871)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · North Carolina — [source: NCSLMA Elementary Battle of the Books 2025-2026 (Grades 3-5)](https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=14871)

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