LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE
Kathryn Lasky

Now a major motion picture!Enter the world of the owls and meet the heroes who keep it safe…Born in the forest of the barn owls, Soren loves life’s little pleasures, like the feel of a centipede pattering down his throat. But evil lurks in the owl world, and threatens to change the course of Soren’s life forever.One terrifying night the strangers come. They capture Soren and fly him to a deep canyon, where the destruction of all owls is being planned. Now Soren will have to do something he has never done before: he will have to fly…

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First published in the USA by Scholastic Inc 2003

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

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Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008226848

Version: 2016-12-05

To Ann Reit, Wise Owl, Great Flight Instructor

… and then the forest of the Kingdom of Tyto seemed to grow smaller and smaller and dimmer and dimmer in the night …

CONTENTS

Cover (#ufd781d84-8b78-5669-96e6-18d233eb073a)

Title Page (#uafc3a87c-07bc-58d2-903e-5c9c5e08674a)

Copyright (#ulink_3ad1defe-4ba1-5cb4-9324-3c01b7854862)

Chapter One: A Nest Remembered (#ulink_42a16177-ab08-5f70-bfda-c64a28939192)

Chapter Two: A Life Worth Two Pellets (#ulink_df3fbfe4-1fc2-583b-9456-ec01557b4f05)

Chapter Three: Snatched! (#ulink_52b8925f-fa99-5392-9cae-dbcfa511b22f)

Chapter Four: St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls (#ulink_35ac1516-7f62-5f95-a85f-27ea0950d863)

Chapter Five: Moon Blinking (#ulink_a9cfa19d-7f81-53f2-b1c6-d13f9b74fc7a)

Chapter Six: Separate Pits, One Mind (#ulink_9672b85f-a7a7-5f5e-aaa5-31dd0b3fd0eb)

Chapter Seven: The Great Scheme (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight: The Pelletorium (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine: Good Nurse Finny (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten: Right Side Up in an Upside-down World (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven: Gylfie’s Discovery (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve: Moon Scalding (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen: Perfection! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen: The Eggorium (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen: The Hatchery (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen: Hortense’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen: Save the Egg! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen: One Bloody Night (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen: To Believe (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty: Grimble’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One: To Fly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Shape of the Wind (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three: Flying Free (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four: Empty Hollows (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five: Mrs P! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six: Desert Battle (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hortense’s Eagles (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)