The Shattering

The Shattering
Kathryn Lasky

Fifth title in a mythic adventure series in which the heroes are owls!Soren's sister, Eglantine, is falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Just as Soren notices her trancelike state, the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger.In the midst of war, Eglantine has unwittingly become a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones. Brainwashed, she is powerless to prevent Kludd’s forces from infiltrating the Ga’Hoole tree – and so a deadly conflict begins…

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For Joy Peskin

CONTENTS

Cover (#u47f7ef84-afbd-53dc-bd59-15da8e2275d8)

Title Page (#u1ffd5c56-3917-52a9-bcdf-25bd5babbe68)

Copyright (#ulink_d1de9d1d-85b5-507c-ab30-23e860e7274b)

Dedication (#ulink_265c4621-9978-5a50-98d0-51de7d287abe)

Prologue (#ulink_5120e01f-3837-5f32-95d5-6ecba5b93780)

Chapter One: A friend in Need? (#ulink_86041879-8173-5137-acad-999da3add78e)

Chapter Two: Spronk No More (#ulink_ed1e1860-079d-5394-b6f6-ceea605e115a)

Chapter Three: A Grim Tweener (#ulink_45ffd9ec-daf6-547e-b100-63accf6f9225)

Chapter Four: A Missing Piece (#ulink_be8ee6c6-9232-5a9c-8131-ecb436d98c5f)

Chapter Five: A fragment from the Sea (#ulink_74eab335-a59b-5978-9059-7ba5e89f3650)

Chapter Six: So Close! (#ulink_9a795469-8c7e-57d6-bf9b-21375908ce75)

Chapter Seven: The Sign of the Centipede (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight: Mum Waits for Me (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine: The Most Beautiful Mum in the World (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten: Eglantine Researches (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven: Primrose’s Last Thought (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve: A Gizzard Begins to Stir (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen: The Lucky Charm (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen: As a Gizzard Twitches (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen: Piece by Piece (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen: The Sacred Orb (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen: The Hostage Egg (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen: “It Cannot fail!” (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen: The Peg-out (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty: A Crown of fire (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One: The Gollymopes (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Living Dead (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Passing of the Claws (#litres_trial_promo)