Theo thought of all this as he smothered the fires while carefully putting aside the live coals in small, specially forged iron boxes that would keep them hot.
And for the first time in the months since Grank had been on the island, smoke did not curl up into the air above the tree and the hollow where he lived.
“Inside, Hoole! Immediately!” Grank said.
“But I just got out here!” Hoole was perched on the tip of a branch. “You promised, Uncle Grank, that today would be the day for branching. My first flight feathers, remember? At last I have budged them.”
“Back in the hollow,” Theo said sharply.
This stunned Hoole. They never spoke this way to him. What had he done wrong—already? All he ever thought about was flying and now it was to be his first time and they hadn’t even let him out on a branch! He must have messed up. But how? He poked his beak out a tiny bit.
“In!” Grank hissed.
Hoole had caught a glimpse of something flying overhead. He heard a stirring in the thinner branches high in the tree. Was some owl actually landing here? Incredible! Except for Grank and Theo, he hadn’t ever seen any other owls.
Of course, the damping down of the fires had been in vain. Theo had smothered the fires only three days before, and now a brother was arriving at their campsite.
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Table of Contents
Excerpt
Title Page
Dedication
Kingdoms of S’yrthgar
Kingdoms of N’yrthgar
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE Grank I Am
CHAPTER TWO I Discover Firesight
CHAPTER THREE Fengo
CHAPTER FOUR BONK!
CHAPTER FIVE A Strange Interlude
CHAPTER SIX When We Were Very Young
CHAPTER SEVEN The Grog Tree
CHAPTER EIGHT The Nacht Ga’
CHAPTER NINE The Eyes of Fengo
CHAPTER TEN My Best Intentions
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Ice Cliff Palace
CHAPTER TWELVE To the Bitter Sea
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Blood Snowflakes
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Arrival of Theo
CHAPTER FIFTEEN A Wounded Queen
CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Polar Bear Named Svenka
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Vanished!
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Svenka Tells a Tale of Death
CHAPTER NINETEEN The First Battle Claws
CHAPTER TWENTY A Stubborn Owl Gets More Stubborn
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Siv Learns to Fly Again
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO First Blood
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Theo Returns
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A Haggish Lord
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Odd Stirrings
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX The Longest Night
EPILOGUE
The GUARDIANS of GA’HOOLE
OWLS and others from the GUARDIANS of GA’HOOLE SERIES
A peek at THE GUARDIANS of GA’HOOLE Book Ten: The Coming of Hoole
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