The Journey. Kathryn Lasky
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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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Version: 2016-12-06
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
Chapter One: A Mobbing of Crows
Chapter Two: In the Company of Sooty Owls
Chapter Three: Twilight Shows Off
Chapter Four: Get Out! Get Out!
Chapter Five: The Mirror Lakes
Chapter Seven: This Side of Yonder
Chapter Eight: First Night to First Light
Chapter Nine: A Parliament of Owls
Chapter Ten: Twilight on the Brink
Chapter Eleven: The Golden Talons
Chapter Twelve: Hukla, Hukla and Hope
Chapter Thirteen: Books of the Yonder
Chapter Fourteen: Night Flight
Chapter Fifteen: A Visit to Bubo
Chapter Sixteen: The Voices in the Roots
Chapter Seventeen: Weather Chaw
Chapter Eighteen: Mrs Plithiver’s Dilemma
Chapter Nineteen: A Visit to Madame Plonk
Chapter Twenty-One: “A Coal in My Beak!”
Chapter Twenty-Two: Owlets Down!
Chapter Twenty-Three: At Last!
Chapter Twenty-Four: Trader Mags
Chapter Twenty-Five: In the Folds of the Night
Soren felt the blind snake shift in the deep feathers between his shoulders as he and the three other owls flew through the buffeting winds. They had been flying for hours now and it seemed as if in the last minutes the darkness had begun to dissolve drop by drop, and they were now passing from the full black of the night into the first light of the morning. Beneath them a river slid like a dark ribbon over the earth.
“Let’s keep flying even though it’s getting light,” said Twilight, the immense Great Grey Owl who flew downwind of Soren. “We’re getting nearer. I just feel it.”
It was to the Sea of Hoolemere they flew, and in the middle of that sea was an island and on that island