Warrior's Refuge (Warriors Manga: Graystripe's Adventure #2)

by Erin Hunter, James L. Barry (Illustrator)

Overview

A manga adventure from the world of Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series!

In the second book of the Graystripe’s Adventure manga arc, follow ThunderClan warrior Graystripe after he is captured by Twolegs in Warriors: The New Prophecy #3: Dawn—and embarks on a difficult journey home.

As Graystripe and Millie begin their quest to find ThunderClan, they find that getting out of Twolegplace alive isn't nearly as simple as they thought. Millie isn’t used to life in the wild—and just when a temporary refuge is in sight, conflict with a tribe of barn cats threatens to break the travelers apart for good!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061252310
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/26/2007
Series:	Warriors Manga Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	195,961
Product dimensions:	7.34(w) x 10.94(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. In addition to having great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior. She is the author of the Warriors, Seekers, Survivors, Bravelands, and Bamboo Kingdom series. Erin lives in the UK.

Editorial Reviews

The linchpin volume of the Warrior manga trilogy follows Graystripe and Millie's eventful search for ThunderClan. For this likable pair, danger seems to be everywhere: Even getting out of Twolegplace challenges their fledgling skills, and just when things seem a bit easier, a pack of barn cats threatens to wreak havoc on their mission!

Gr 5 Up -Erin Huntera's "Warriors" series (HarperCollins) gets a manga-style treatment in this addition to the series. What makes it different from other prose-to-comics adaptations is that it isna't a straight translation but rather an entirely new story line that expands on the prose novels rather than merely supplementing them. Tough and wise Graystripe has befriended the now-liberated Millie and the two are searching for Graystripea's old allies, the ThunderClan. After braving a highway and escaping some monstrous farm machinery, the felines take refuge in a barn, only to find other cats already living there. The current residents are wary of them, as the situation is tense. The owners have no love for cats and their dogs make the barn dwellers virtual prisoners. Predictably, Graystripe and Millie win over both the humans and cats, but the resolution is actually the booka's high point: through Milliea's bravery, readers discover that the dogs arena't cruel-they just like to chase cats. The artwork is merely competent and the story (which was not written by Hunter) is slight, but fans of the novels and cat stories in general will be drawn to it. While the majority of the lettering is done in the standard comics all-caps style, whenever humans are speaking the font becomes scratchy and aggressive. While this appears to be a deliberate choice to accentuate the humansa' villain role, it is retained even after they befriend the cats, and is especially odd when a toddler is speaking.-Douglas P. Davey, Halton Hills Public Library, Ontario, Canada

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