The Falconmaster
- Authors
- LaFevers, R.L.
- Publisher
- Dutton Juvenile
- Tags
- people with disabilities , children's 9-12 - fiction - historical , animals - birds , animals , great britain , falcons , birds , children: grades 3-4 , juvenile fiction , fantasy , children: grades 4-6 , magic
- ISBN
- 9780525469933
- Date
- 2003-02-15T12:17:34+00:00
- Size
- 0.14 MB
- Lang
- en
This fantasy combines wizardry and magic with an absorbing animal-rescue story and should appeal to all fantasy lovers, but especially boys. Wat, a crippled boy, is an outcast in his village and retreats often to the forest, away from the cruel taunts of the villagers. There he witnesses the lord's handlers heartlessly kill a nesting pair of falcons so they can take the baby birds for their master. Wat, outraged, steals the nestlings and escapes into the heart of the forest, where he meets a mysterious old man. He is a mage-a wizard-who teaches him many things, among them how to care for the birds so that they may eventually fly free, and how to find some helpful magic-which is closer to him than he ever believed.
Ten-year-old Wat, a crippled boy living in Norman England, rescues two baby falcons and is led to discover the grandfather he never knew and the powerful magic that resides in the deep forest and in himself.