Firewing (26 page)

KENNETH OPPEL is the author of many books, including
Airborn
, winner of the Governor General’s Award;
Skybreaker
, winner of the Red Maple Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award; and the million-copy-selling Silverwing Saga. His most recent novel is
Half Brother
. Kenneth Oppel lives with his wife and three children in Toronto. Visit his website at
www.kennethoppel.com
.

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ALSO NOMINATED FOR

Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children Award

Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award

Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award

“Brilliantly, Oppel has created an entirely believable fantasy world inhabited by bats and other creatures that, except for their furriness, exhibit all the behaviours of human beings and mythological gods…. I can guarantee you’ll love it.”   —
The Vancouver Sun

“With a spring-tight plot, it propels the reader through an exciting, chilling, and deliciously satisfying adventure.
Firewing
is sure to delight.”    —
Quill & Quire

“The story is vivid and spellbinding, full of drama … just as thrilling as the previous two books in the series.”    —
The Chronicle-Herald

“
Firewing
has accessible and appealing young characters, a fascinating, elaborately imagined world and an exciting, well-crafted story.”    —
Winnipeg Free Press

“[In
Firewing
] Oppel constructs a wonderfully florid and richly imagined world, a bat world in which life and death, goodness and evil, heaven and hell, and the notion of giving up one’s own life so that another might live, are there for the reading—and the feeling.” —
The Globe and Mail

“Hauntingly vivid.”    —
Toronto Star

“Goth, the monstrous cannibal bat who plotted to kill the sun, may have been blown to bits at the end of Kenneth Oppel’s
Sunwing
. But this doesn’t stop Oppel from including his arch-villain in yet another electrifying sequel to the bat saga he began in 1997.”
—Amazon.ca

Half Brother
Starclimber
Skybreaker
Airborn
Darkwing
Firewing
Sunwing
Silverwing
Dead Water Zone
The Live-Forever Machine

(
For Younger Readers
)
The King’s Taster
Peg and the Yeti
Peg and the Whale
Emma’s Emu
A Bad Case of Ghosts
A Strange Case of Magic
A Crazy Case of Robots
A Weird Case of Super-Goo
An Incredible Case of Dinosaurs
A Creepy Case of Vampires

Requiem Copyright © 2011 by Kenneth Oppel.

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