Shout out to Kailana for the guest blog post!
After enjoying Erin Hunter's Warrior series, well, the first book anyways, my imaginary Hermione decided that she would give another book centered around animals a try. In the Warriors series, we have a book about talking cats, in this series we get inside the minds of their prey: birds. Essentially, Swordbird tells the story about the battle between good and evil. The blue jays and cardinals once lived in peace, but now each suspects the other of treachery. The resulting war turns a peaceful neck of the woods into a battleground.
Little do our fluttery heroes know that their problems are not with each other but with another flock of birds that has moved into the area. They capture other birds and put them to work as slaves, and it is these feathered anti-friends that have started the trouble between the cardinals and the blue jays. The cardinals and blue jays are just too busy fighting amongst themselves to notice right away.
Hermione is caught in a world where she is constantly battling against evil. There is a new threat every year at school it seems, and sometimes it is nice for her to be able to read about other peoples problems and watch them play out without having to be a part of them. Nancy Yi Fan was actually only 12 when she wrote this book, and I can picture a young Hermione relating to the world that Nancy creates. Hermione has seen a lot of death and destruction in her young life, so it is always nice when she can sit down with a book that has readers rooting for the under...bird. Aska, a young blue jay, would probably be Hermione's favourite because she underestimates even herself until she is tested. And, then there is the mystery. Does Swordbird in fact exist, and will he arrive in time to save the forest from destruction?
I guess you will just have to join Hermione in reading it in order to find out. If you're keen to know more about Swordbird, check out the chapter excerpt or read a note from the author.
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