The Rescue. Kathryn Lasky

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      First published in the USA by Scholastic Inc 2004

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2006

      Text copyright © Kathryn Lasky 2004

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      Source ISBN: 9780007215195

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008226817

      Version: 2016-12-05

      … soon the walls of the castle ruins rose in the dawn mist …

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Chapter One: Blood Dawn

Chapter Two: Flecks in the night!

Chapter Three: What a Blow!

Chapter Four: The Spirit Woods

       Chapter Five: Bubo’s forge

       Chapter Six: Eglantine’s Dilemma

       Chapter Seven: The Harvest festival

       Chapter Eight: Into a Night Stained Red

       Chapter Nine: The Rogue Smith of Silverveil

       Chapter Ten: The Story of the Rogue Smith

       Chapter Eleven: Flint Mops

       Chapter Twelve: Rusty Claws

       Chapter Thirteen: Octavia Speaks

       Chapter Fourteen: Eglantine’s Dream

       Chapter Fifteen: The Chaw of Chaws

       Chapter Sixteen: The Empty Shrine

       Chapter Seventeen: A Muddled Owl

       Chapter Eighteen: A Nightmare Revisited

       Chapter Nineteen: Into the Devil’s Triangle

       Chapter Twenty: Attack!

       Chapter Twenty-One: Good Light

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Other Books By

       About the Publisher

CHAPTER ONE

       Blood Dawn

      The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky. Every other owl had already tucked into their hollows in the Great Ga’Hoole Tree for the day’s sleep. Every owl, that is, except for Soren, who perched on the highest limb of this tallest Ga’Hoole tree on earth. He scoured the horizon for a sign, any sign of his beloved teacher, Ezylryb.

      Ezylryb had disappeared almost two months before. The old Whiskered Screech, indeed the oldest teacher, or ‘ryb’ as they were called, of the great tree had flown out on a mission that late summer night to help rescue owlets from what was now referred to as the Great Downing. Scores of young orphan owlets had mysteriously been found СКАЧАТЬ