The Journey

The Journey
Kathryn Lasky

The brave owls of Ga'Hoole are back in their second mythic adventure as they strive to preserve owldom from the evil that lurks around them. Join the owls in their quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, the legendary place where ordinary owls are transformed into the heroes that guard the owl kingdom.Out of the darkness a hero will rise…It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga’Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom.The journey is long and arduous for Soren, Gylife, Twilight and Digger. When they finally arrive, they realize that the journey has barely started and that greater challenges lay ahead. If they succeed in following in the footsteps of their leaders, they will soon become true Ga'Hoolian owls– honest, brave, true and wise.

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First published in the USA by Scholastic Inc 2003

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

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DEDICATION (#ulink_0d13b3df-ce10-517a-ac10-d4dd4cec2cc7)

To Max, who imagines universes

…the four owls looked below and saw the vast sea glinting with silver spangles from the moon’s light and then, directly ahead, spreading into the night, were the twisting branches of the largest tree they had ever seen, the Great Ga’Hoole Tree…

CONTENTS

Cover (#uf06642d6-ef76-5b10-a2c6-db39291c785f)

Title Page (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#ulink_78c94fd3-8c9a-5591-ad0f-fcd7f7cae2ad)

Dedication (#ulink_c8efe79a-9bbb-5c74-9f7e-e0ecadabeda3)

Chapter One: A Mobbing of Crows (#ulink_82eff8ce-f6a9-587b-8e16-286a3335f868)

Chapter Two: In the Company of Sooty Owls (#ulink_ff085811-930e-51cd-b27c-3289d83d20f4)

Chapter Three: Twilight Shows Off (#ulink_158853f7-7411-578f-bc09-7e7cf6be9f3a)

Chapter Four: Get Out! Get Out! (#ulink_59c4f9cf-a289-5e6a-a660-deb61990402e)

Chapter Five: The Mirror Lakes (#ulink_571cea42-9d75-5a36-a7cb-f98922a8f587)

Chapter Six: The Ice Narrows (#ulink_b25b69d3-184a-573d-9991-b48ceaa1600b)

Chapter Seven: This Side of Yonder (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight: First Night to First Light (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine: A Parliament of Owls (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten: Twilight on the Brink (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven: The Golden Talons (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve: Hukla, Hukla and Hope (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen: Books of the Yonder (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen: Night Flight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen: A Visit to Bubo (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen: The Voices in the Roots (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen: Weather Chaw (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen: Mrs Plithiver’s Dilemma (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen: A Visit to Madame Plonk (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty: Fire! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One: “A Coal in My Beak!” (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two: Owlets Down! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three: At Last! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four: Trader Mags (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five: In the Folds of the Night (#litres_trial_promo)