It’s our pleasure to welcome Ranger’s Apprentice author, John Flanagan, who stops by with The Outcasts, Book #1 of his new series for middle readers: The Brotherband Chronicles. Hal, Stig, and the other outcasts have to rely on skills they must hone in an ultimate challenge: a battle on the high seas. Excitement and adventure test the boys. Meet the author when he returns to Anderson’s.
They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others – they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger’s Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn’t mean they don’t have skills. And courage – which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field . . . especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing. John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger’s Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger’s Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books.
