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Overview

While Maerad journeys in the far north, her brother, Hem, is sent south to the golden city of Turbansk. There he learns the ways of the Bards and discovers a hidden gift when he rescues a white crow. But when the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem flees with his protector, Saliman, and a young orphan girl named Zelika to join the Light’s resistance forces. Soon Hem discovers that he, too, has a crucial role to play in the quest to solve the Riddle of the Treesong.

“This penultimate epic . . . is emotionally astute and brimming with vivid detail.” — Kirkus Reviews

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School Library Journal

Gr 8 Up- Following The Naming (2005) and The Riddle (2006, both Candlewick), this volume in the quartet focuses on Hem, Maerad's brother. An orphan under the care of Bard Saliman, he discovers that he can communicate with birds, and a friendship with a white crow proves very useful. War against the forces of the evil Nameless One is imminent. Orphan Zelika, angry and vengeful, joins them but is caught and imprisoned, and Hem resolves to rescue her. Through all this, he discovers that both he and his sister are prophesied to destroy the Nameless One. The Books of Pellinor are introduced as translations of ancient texts. The heavy reliance on Tolkien techniques, conventions, and characters, including maps and appendixes, is obvious. Occasionally, there are long, awkward segments of detailed description. However, epic fantasy enthusiasts will savor the richness of this world, especially if they have read the previous volumes. Naive orphan Hem gradually transforms into a skilled, educated, disciplined warrior. Readers who persevere to the end will feel satisfied with this intricate volume and eagerly await the next.-Amy J. Chow, New York Public Library

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Croggon backtracks along her time line to chronicle Hem's grueling and poignant struggles during The Riddle (2006). Hem's in Turbansk, lonely and belligerent, resisting his Bard schooling. The poisonous Dark threatens the Suderain, and the Black Army marches on Turbansk. As battle begins and the city is besieged, Saliman allows Hem to stay rather than fleeing with the other children. Hem's healing powers emerge, and readers see that he, too, has a predestined role in saving Edil-Amarandh-fully as cryptic as Maerad's role. Escaping the city, living in caves and training in spy techniques all help Hem when he secretly joins a rank of child-slave warriors. By the end, Hem is scarred and saddened forever, but an Elidhu has given him luminous new knowledge in the form of music that may help Maerad complete the Treesong. Saliman's love sustains Hem through these oppressively grim times. This serious penultimate epic, filled with Tolkien-like images, is emotionally astute and brimming with vivid detail. (map, pronunciation key, appendices) (Fantasy. YA)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780763641467
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • Publication date: 8/12/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 528
  • Sales rank: 132,530
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Series: Pellinor Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Alison Croggon, an award-winning Australian poet, playwright, editor, and critic, is the author of the first two books in this celebrated epic quartet, THE NAMING and THE RIDDLE.

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CHAPTER I THE WHITE CROW

A drop of sweat trickled slowly down Hem’s temple. He wiped it away and reached for another mango.

It was so hot. Even in the shady refuge of the mango tree, the air pressed around him like a damp blanket. There wasn’t the faintest whisper of a breeze: the leaves hung utterly still. As if to make up for the wind’s inaction, the cicadas were louder than Hem had ever heard them. He couldn’t see any from where he was, perched halfway up the tree on a broad branch that divided to make a comfortable seat, but their shrilling was loud enough to hurt his ears.

He leaned back against the trunk and let the sweet flesh of the fruit dissolve on his tongue. These mangoes were certainly the high point of the day. Not, he thought sardonically, that it had been much of a day. He should have been in the Turbansk School, chanting some idiotic Bard song or drowsing through a boring lecture on the Balance. Instead, he had had a furious argument with his mentor about something he couldn’t now remember and had run away.

He had wandered about the winding alleys behind the School, hot and bored and thirsty, until he spotted a seductive glint of orange fruit behind a high wall. A vine offered him a ladder, and he climbed warily into a walled garden, a lush oasis of greenery planted with fruit trees and flowering oleanders and climbing roses and jasmine. At the far end was a cloister leading into a grand house and Hem scanned it swiftly for anyoccupants, before making a dash for the fountain, which fell back into a mosaic-floored pond in the center of the garden. He plunged his head under the water, soaking himself in the delicious coolness, and drank his fill.

Then, shaking his head like a dog, he surveyed the fruit trees. There were a fig, a pomegranate, and two orange trees as well as the mango, the biggest of them all. He noted with regret that the oranges were still green, and then swung himself easily into the mango tree and started plundering its fruit, cutting the tough skin with a clasp knife and throwing the large stones onto the ground below him, until his fingers were sticky with juice.

After he had eaten his fill he stared idly through the leaves at the blue of the sky, which paled almost to white at the zenith. Finally he wiped his hands carefully on his trousers, dragged something from his pocket, and smoothed it out on his leg. It was a letter, written on parchment in a shaky script. Hem couldn’t decipher it, but Saliman, his guardian, had read it out to him that morning and then, seeing the look on Hem’s face, had given him the letter as a keepsake.

To Hem and Saliman, greetings!

Cadvan and I arrived in Thorold safely, as you may know if the bird reached you. We are both much better than when we last saw you.

I was very seasick on my way here, and Cadvan and I had to fight an ondril, which was very big, but we got here safely. Nerili has given us haven, and you will have heard the rest of the news from the emissary.

I hope you have arrived in Turbansk with no harm, and that Hem finds the fruits are as big as the birds said they were. I think of you all the time and miss you sorely.

With all the love in my heart,
Maerad

Already they were being chased by monsters. Hem knew that an ondril was a kind of giant snake that lived in the ocean.Cadvan was possibly even braver than Saliman, and Maerad (to Hem’s twelve-year-old eyes at least) was braver still; but they were only two, and the Dark so many, and everywhere. And where was Thorold, after all? Somewhere over the sea, Saliman had told him, and showed him a shape on a chart; but Hem had never even seen the sea and had only the vaguest idea of distance on a map. It meant nothing to him.

Hem stared at the letter as if the sheer intensity of his gaze could unriddle its meanings, but all it did was to make the page swim and blur. The only word he could make out was Maerad. And what had Maerad not written down? What other dangers was she facing? The letter was already days old: was she still alive?

Very suddenly, as if it burned him, Hem crumpled up the letter and shoved it back in his pocket. Unbidden into his mind came the memory of when he had first seen Maerad, when she had opened his tiny hiding place under the bed in the Pilanel caravan and he had looked up, terrified, expecting a knife flashing down to slash him to ribbons, and instead found himself staring into his own sister’s astonished eyes. Only he hadn’t known she was his sister, then. That had come later. . . . He remembered Maerad as he had last seen her in Norloch, standing in the doorway of Nelac’s house as he and Saliman rode away, her face white with sorrow and exhaustion, her black hair tossing in the wind. Hem bit his lip, almost hard enough to draw blood. He was not a boy who wept easily, but his chest felt hot with grief. He missed Maerad more than he could admit, even to himself.

Maerad was the one person in the world he felt at home with. In the short period they had been together his nightmares had stopped for the first time in his life. Even before she knew he was her brother, she had taken him in her arms and stroked his face when the bad dreams came. Even now it seemed amazing; Hem would have hit with his closed fist anyone else who took such liberties. He had trusted Maerad from the start. . . .

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THE CROW by Alison Croggon. Copyright (c) 2007 by Alison Croggon. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

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  • Posted September 25, 2011

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    Fantastique!

    I love this author and this series.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 30, 2011

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    The Saga Continues

    Book three switches from Maerad's perspective to her brother Hem. His journey is also dark and twisted as he follows a perilous path. Not until the end does the reader understand the importance of his quest.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2012

    Great books

    Love this series! Waiting.....

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 29, 2012

    Love it!!!

    Fell in love with the books when they first came out and am sad that it is over. Great series and will read again!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 13, 2012

    Unknown

    Its great!!!!

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  • Posted March 12, 2011

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    Keeps you on the edge of your seat

    It is a good break from the first two books. It lets you get a glimpse into what is going on with Hem. I could not put down this book. It leaves you wanting more and you will want to read the remaining books in the Pellinor Series. You should read the books in order to make sure you understand the plot.

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  • Posted April 11, 2010

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    Adventure, magic, and just plain good reading.

    My friend suggested I read the naming over a year ago, which is the first book of the Pellinor series. I bought it for my birthday--which is in July and just now got around to reading it in February. So far, the three books I've read of the four part series have been excellent. It's an interesting switch up, in The Crow--the previous books are about Maraed, compared to this one which is about Hem.
    It's interesting to get both perspectives in the series--which makes for an even better read. There's a lot of names and places, so you really get the hang of it by the the second book, The Riddle. It is a series, so it makes more sense if you start at The Naming.
    All in all I'd reccomend this book to anyone who likes books of adventure, magic and good reading.

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  • Posted August 23, 2009

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    Amazing Plot and very well written

    Alison Croggon is truly a mastermind at spinning a beautiful tale of destiny, war, finding your identity, and emotion. A mixture of magic and reality, it is truly a spellbinding book. This is the third book in my personal favorite series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 4, 2009

    Overall the book was good

    To me the books start out a little slow, but they always get much better. This one is different from the previous two because the main characters are Hem and Zelika, not Maerad and Cadvan. If the main reason you read these books is because you like Maerad, you might find this book frustrating.

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  • Posted June 17, 2009

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    Good Book :)

    Very Good even though it focuses around Hem

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  • Posted March 2, 2009

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    good book, but could have been better!

    hi,
    i feel that this is a good book. i loved the ending. i think it could have been a bit more better than it was. i hope you enjoy this book and the former books of the books of pellinor!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 12, 2008

    Dont worry theres a fourth book

    the fourth book the singing is coming to the u.s. march of 09. these books are great, the crow is slightly boring though

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 4, 2008

    Reply to Trilogy question

    Just to answer the question of the cliff hanger ending, this is not a trilogy, its a quartet. the fourth book is coming out in soon, im not sure exactly when, but sometime in the next year.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 18, 2008

    why a trilogy

    i love the series so far but i dont get how this can be a trilogy when it ends in a sort of clif-hanger. now that they've collected the pieces of the puzzle are they going to solve it? this needs to be a quartet not a trilogy

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 12, 2008

    it's NOT a trilogy

    in response to the previous comment, this isn't a trilogy! the fourth is coming out in the usa in january, and it's called 'the singing'. it's already out in australia, and will be released in the uk in november (i think). anyway, each book gets better--i don't know why i didn't stop at the first one, because i honestly didn't like it. the second was much better, and the third was wonderful! barely any real action, but you come to love each character so much that you're in tears by the end. i can't wait until january!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 13, 2008

    Opinion of an Avid Reader((:

    Well I must admit that I was upset when I realized that Maerad and Cadvan were not in it, but I absolutely loved this book just as much as the others. Yes the first... say 3-4 chapter's were kinda slow but once it started to pick up it was an amazing book. I can't wait for The Singing with both Maerad and Hem!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 11, 2008

    These books are amazing.

    If you enjoy Cry of the Icemark, Harry Potter, LotR, or any other type of epic fantasy, you'll love this. Croggon has you hanging on her every word, and she delivers. This one, unfortunately though, is not nearly as attention grabbing as the previous two. But, still fantastic as always. Yes she's making a fourth (The Singing). But, and I hate to burst everyone's bubble (because I love the realtionship as much as you do), Cadvan is unlikely to fall in love again. Maerad even realized the love Cadvan felt for her was a more protective, friendship love. Though, maybe they'll change their minds =DD

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2008

    Amazing

    This book is fantastic. Engaging, well written. But is she going to make a fourth?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2007

    Its pretty good

    Personally I thought the whole first half was boring but once you get to the second half it starts to pick up. Was disappointed that it wasn't from Mearad's POV and Cadvan wasn't in it 'when they said his name the few times they did...I spazed'. Over all it was good but it needs more BAMs 'romantic moment'.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2007

    It's Out!

    I am totally jumping off the walls about this book. I can't wait to read it! Ohhhh!I'm so excited! I know I'll love it because, the other two were soooo good. Fave. Character... Totally Cadvan!

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