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Firewing

by Kenneth Oppel

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd | December 18, 2003 | Mass Market Paperbound

Firewing is hot! On the bestseller lists for months, Firewing?s Canadian sales are over 75,000 copies, and?like its predecessors, Silverwing and Sunwing?it has been nominated for a slew of awards. Just released in the US, Firewing is gathering accolades and great sales in equal measure. With the animated Silverwing series about to debut on Teletoon in the fall of 2003, this new mass market edition of Firewing is ready to soar!
  • Listed in the top 5 books of 2002 by Quill & Quire
  • Nominated for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
  • A Red Maple Honour Book
  • Nominated for the Manitoba Young Readers? Choice Award
  • Nominated for the Hackmatack Children?s Choice Award
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    Rating: 4/5

    Good but weakest in series

    Steven R. McEvoy

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    2 years ago

    To be honest, this is the only book so far in this series I have not really enjoyed. Maybe it is a little too dark, or maybe it was just the story, but either way, of the four books in this series, this is the only one I am not likely to read again. Shade, our hero from the first two books, has now grown and become a father himself. After an earthquake, his son Griffin is drawn into an underground world through a fissure that has opened up. Shade realizes that the legends say, if a living being enters the underworld realm of the dead and does not escape quickly, its life will be lost. Shade is frantically searching for his son and soon realizes an old enemy is also in the underworld.

    Oppel again uses mythology and legends and weaves a story of bats around them. It does fit with the other books in the series, I just happened to not enjoy it as much.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Good but weakest in series

    Steven R. McEvoy

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    2 years ago

    To be honest, this is the only book so far in this series I have not really enjoyed. Maybe it is a little too dark, or maybe it was just the story, but either way, of the four books in this series, this is the only one I am not likely to read again. Shade, our hero from the first two books, has now grown and become a father himself. After an earthquake, his son Griffin is drawn into an underground world through a fissure that has opened up. Shade realizes that the legends say, if a living being enters the underworld realm of the dead and does not escape quickly, its life will be lost. Shade is frantically searching for his son and soon realizes an old enemy is also in the underworld.

    Oppel again uses mythology and legends and weaves a story of bats around them. It does fit with the other books in the series, I just happened to not enjoy it as much.

    • Was this review
      helpful to you?

    Rating: 4/5

    Good but weakest in series

    Steven R. McEvoy

    • Top Book Reviewer

    2 years ago

    To be honest, this is the only book so far in this series I have not really enjoyed. Maybe it is a little too dark, or maybe it was just the story, but either way, of the four books in this series, this is the only one I am not likely to read again. Shade, our hero from the first two books, has now grown and become a father himself. After an earthquake, his son Griffin is drawn into an underground world through a fissure that has opened up. Shade realizes that the legends say, if a living being enters the underworld realm of the dead and does not escape quickly, its life will be lost. Shade is frantically searching for his son and soon realizes an old enemy is also in the underworld.

    Oppel again uses mythology and legends and weaves a story of bats around them. It does fit with the other books in the series, I just happened to not enjoy it as much.

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    Lindsay

    Rating: 5/5

    The most unexpected ending ever!!

    Lindsay

    9 years ago

    I think this book is quite good, but Ken Oppel should make another book to make up for the sad ending. Other than that, the book is great!

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Firewing is hot! On the bestseller lists for months, Firewing?s Canadian sales are over 75,000 copies, and?like its predecessors, Silverwing and Sunwing?it has been nominated for a slew of awards. Just released in the US, Firewing is gathering accolades and great sales in equal measure. With the animated Silverwing series about to debut on Teletoon in the fall of 2003, this new mass market edition of Firewing is ready to soar!
  • Listed in the top 5 books of 2002 by Quill & Quire
  • Nominated for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
  • A Red Maple Honour Book
  • Nominated for the Manitoba Young Readers? Choice Award
  • Nominated for the Hackmatack Children?s Choice Award

About the Author

KENNETH OPPEL is a literary phenomenon who had his first novel for children published at age 17. His Silverwing Saga, which includes Silverwing, Sunwing and Firewing, has sold over a million copies worldwide and has won numerous awards. His most recent bestsellers include Skybreaker, which won the 2006 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Red Maple Award, and Airborn, winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award and the 2005 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award. Kenneth Oppel, voted Author of the Year in 2006 by the Canadian Booksellers Association, lives in Toronto with his wife and three children. He recently received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. Visit him online at www.kennethoppel.com or www.darkwing.ca.

Mass Market Paperbound

328 Pages, 4.1 x 6.75 x 0.9 IN

December 18, 2003

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

English

Canadian Author


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9780006393023

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