First Hero (10 page)

#1: FIRST HERO

#2: CHASING EVIL

#3: CALL TO WAR

#4: FIRE AND FURY

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Blade, Adam.
The chronicles of Avantia: first hero / by Adam Blade.
p. cm.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tanner, with the good Beast Firepos the Flame Bird, is waiting to avenge his father’s death by warlord Derthsin when Avantia is menaced by an evil army seeking the pieces of the Mask of Death, which allows its wearer to control all Beasts, and Tanner, aided by twins Gwen and Geffen, sets out to find the pieces first.

ISBN 978-0-545-36160-6

[1. Fantasy. 2. Human-animal relationships — Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters — Fiction. 4. Twins — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.B5347Chr 2012

[Fic] — dc23
2011024872

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First printing, February 2012