Hero Rising

Hero Rising
Shane Hegarty

The edge-of-your-seat, monstrously-exciting, laugh-out-loud adventures of the most unfortunate monster-hunter ever to don armour… continue.Things can’t get any worse. Legends are running riot. Half-hunters are out of control. Darkmouth has been taken away from Finn and Emmie, and Finn’s dad Hugo – proud Legend Hunter – is washing dogs for a living.But something even more terrifying lurks beneath the surface: an ancient horror threatening both our world and the Infested Side.So scratch that. Things can get worse. Much worse.More than ever, Darkmouth is going to need a hero…Sadly, all it’s got is Finn.

First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

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Monster footprint illustration copyright © Peter Crowther 2017

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Source ISBN: 9780008165673

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Version: 2017-04-05

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Contents

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Title Page (#u3a7ebcd9-dd84-5d55-a36a-82e20a9834ee)

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Dedication (#ud3154aee-30af-592f-872f-7539fb555370)

Maps (#ub5b8385b-8edc-513f-8a3c-5b3e7bf0304c)

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