The Shattering (Guardians of Ga'hoole)

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Authors: Kathryn Lasky

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In the midst of war, Eglantine unwittingly becomes a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones (a group of evil owls). She is brainwashed by an owl sent by the Pure Ones to infiltrate the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Her odd behavior eventually attracts attention, and Soren and his friends vow to find out what's wrong with Eglantine. They ultimately learn what happened and help her reverse the effects of the brainwashing. Kludd continues to battle against the Guardians of Ga'Hoole for control of their tree. In the end, Kludd and his forces are defeated. But his conflict with Soren is not yet over.

Guardians of Ga’Hoole

The Shattering
Book Five

BY

Kathryn Lasky

For Joy Peskin

Maps

Illustration

Eglantine and Primrose sliced through the clear space
between two blazing trees
.
Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Maps

Illustration

Prologue

CHAPTER ONE A Friend in Need?

CHAPTER TWO Spronk No More

CHAPTER THREE A Grim Tweener

CHAPTER FOUR A Missing Piece

CHAPTER FIVE A Fragment from the Sea

CHAPTER SIX So Close!

CHAPTER SEVEN The Sign of the Centipede

CHAPTER EIGHT Mum Waits for Me

CHAPTER NINE The Most Beautiful Mum in the World

CHAPTER TEN Eglantine Researches

CHAPTER ELEVEN Primrose’s Last Thought

CHAPTER TWELVE A Gizzard Begins to Stir

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Lucky Charm

CHAPTER FOURTEEN As a Gizzard Twitches

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Piece by Piece

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Sacred Orb

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Hostage Egg

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN “It Cannot Fail!”

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Peg-out

CHAPTER TWENTY A Crown of Fire

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Gollymopes

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Living Dead

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Passing of the Claws

OWLS and other from GUARDIANS of GA’HOOLE The Shattering

A peek at THE GUARDIANS of GA’HOOLE Book Six: The Burning

About the Author

The Guardians of Ga’Hoole

Copyright

Prologue

It was the same. That was her first thought.

It looks just like the old fir tree, the one where Soren and I were hatched. And even the shape of the hollow’s opening where Mum and Da made their nest, a lopsided O—wasn’t that the exact shape?

Eglantine knew she was dreaming, but it seemed so real. Like no dream she’d ever had. It was so lovely she didn’t want it to end. She wondered if she flew a little closer and just took a peek, would the hollow look the same inside? Would her mum and da be there? Oh, it had been forever since she’d seen them. Soren said they were dead. He had seen their scrooms, the spirits of dead owls. She hated it when Soren said that. Eglantine squirmed now in her sleep as the words from the awful conversation wove through her dream.

“You saw their scrooms? That means they are dead, doesn’t it, Soren?”

“It does, Eglantine, and there is nothing we can do about that.”

And then Twilight had added his horrible conclusion.
“Dead is dead.”

“Dead is dead.”
The words swirled around her like black crows getting ready to mob.
“Dead IS NOT dead!”
She shouted back in her dream.
“Dead IS NOT dead.”

CHAPTER ONE
A Friend in Need?

W
ake up, Eglantine! Wake up!” Primrose, Eglantine’s hollowmate, was vigorously shaking her. “You’re just having a bad dream.”

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