Trying to find a fae book I read ~2010s. Age range: middle school to younger YA. No real romance for main character
Recently I was talking with a friend about books we read in the past and I could NOT find this book for the life of me! It’s a book about a human girl named Rowan (like the berries) and fae. Basically, her parents and guardian fae died in a car crash (her guardian died to protect her) so she and her little brother were sent to an orphanage. she noticed that fae were watching her brother so she did all the protections like putting him in red and turning clothes inside out. However, the orphanage basically thought she was crazy and one day “fixed” the protections and nobody but Rowan noticed that her brother was swapped out for a changling. Rowan then goes and tries to get her brother back, and meets others along the way where she basically joins them in holding fae accountable for changing out human babies. The Unseelie and Seelie courts are a thing here. Rowan eventually finds out that her aunt is actually her bio mom and her bio dad is fae, but then her bio mom’s sister took her in and raised her. She was named Rowan to give her protection against fae. She eventually finds her brother (she considers him her brother even tho they are biologically cousins) but he doesn’t recognize her and wants to stay with the fae (he is still a little boy who doesn’t understand).
Its part of a series with another girl who’s ancestor (by a few generations) is a changling and in one book meets Rowan. In another book she meets a boy whose dad is missing bc of the fae and there is a tree with wishes and he teaches her protections against fae but she is eventually spelled to forget him (they also cross a river guarded by a fae that wants to eat them in this book). I don’t think the boy ever came across the girl again and later in another book she meets Rowan who teaches her protections against fae.
The main characters DO NOT DO ROMANCE as it is either categorized as middle school or young adult (the younger part of YA). Another book I read around the same time is Storybound.