title: Tales of Rowan Hood
text: # Tales of Rowan Hood
  
  The Tales of Rowan Hood are a series of five books by Nancy Springer. The first book, which was published in 2001 by Philomel Books, focuses on a young girl who dresses as a boy and goes to join Robin Hood's men, in part because her father is Robin Hood.
  
  ## Plot
  
  ### Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (2001)
  
  The book features a girl named Rosemary, the daughter of Robin Hood and a healer. When her mother, Celandine, is burned alive in her home as a witch, Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, adopts the name Rowan, and leaves to find her father. Along the way she meets a dog she names Tykell, and the minstrel Lionel. She is accidentally spotted by Guy of Gisborne, who is enraged when she refuses to give her bow and arrows to him.
  
  ### Lionclaw: A Tale of Rowan Hood (2001)
  
  Lionel's father wants to kill and places a bounty on Lionel. Bounty hunters learn that Lionel and Rowan are friends, so capture and torture Rowan to draw out Lionel.
  
  ### Outlaw Princess of Sherwood: A Tale of Rowan Hood (2003)
  
  Ettarde escapes an arranged marriage and rescues her mother from her abusive husband.
  
  ### Wild Boy: A Tale of Rowan Hood (2004)
  
  Tod, the son of the sheriff of Nottingham, is captured by Robin Hood's group, and caught in a man trap.
  
  ### Rowan Hood Returns: The Final Chapter (2005)
  
  After learning the identities of the four people who killed Celandine, Rowan sets out with the others on a journey to kill them for revenge.
  
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