The Coming of Hoole (Guardians of Ga'hoole)

The latest soaring installment of Kathryn Laskys NYT bestselling GaHoole series Grank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit in disguise and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mothers identity. It would give him away as Hraths heir. Sent by an evil warlord a hagsfiend attempts to lure young Hoole away when he first learns to fly. Grank realizes that the same evil forces that killed Hrath are after Hoole and know where he is. To keep him safe Grank brings him to Beyond the Beyond a strange land of fiery volcanoes in a barren icy landscape.(more)