The Journey
The brave owls of Ga'Hoole are back in their second mythic adventure as they strive to preserve owldom from the evil that lurks around them. Join the owls in their quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, the legendary place where ordinary owls are transformed into the heroes that guard the owl kingdom.Out of the darkness a hero will rise…It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga’Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom.The journey is long and arduous for Soren, Gylife, Twilight and Digger. When they finally arrive, they realize that the journey has barely started and that greater challenges lay ahead. If they succeed in following in the footsteps of their leaders, they will soon become true Ga'Hoolian owls– honest, brave, true and wise.
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First published in the USA by Scholastic Inc 2003
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2006
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To Max, who imagines universes
â¦the four owls looked below and saw the vast sea glinting with silver spangles from the moonâs light and then, directly ahead, spreading into the night, were the twisting branches of the largest tree they had ever seen, the Great GaâHoole Treeâ¦
CONTENTS
Chapter One: A Mobbing of Crows
Chapter Two: In the Company of Sooty Owls
Chapter Three: Twilight Shows Off
Chapter Four: Get Out! Get Out!
Chapter Five: The Mirror Lakes
Chapter Seven: This Side of Yonder
Chapter Eight: First Night to First Light
Chapter Nine: A Parliament of Owls
Chapter Ten: Twilight on the Brink
Chapter Eleven: The Golden Talons
Chapter Twelve: Hukla, Hukla and Hope
Chapter Thirteen: Books of the Yonder
Chapter Fourteen: Night Flight
Chapter Fifteen: A Visit to Bubo
Chapter Sixteen: The Voices in the Roots
Chapter Seventeen: Weather Chaw
Chapter Eighteen: Mrs Plithiverâs Dilemma
Chapter Nineteen: A Visit to Madame Plonk
Chapter Twenty-One: âA Coal in My Beak!â
Chapter Twenty-Two: Owlets Down!
Chapter Twenty-Three: At Last!
Chapter Twenty-Four: Trader Mags
Soren felt the blind snake shift in the deep feathers between his shoulders as he and the three other owls flew through the buffeting winds. They had been flying for hours now and it seemed as if in the last minutes the darkness had begun to dissolve drop by drop, and they were now passing from the full black of the night into the first light of the morning. Beneath them a river slid like a dark ribbon over the earth.
âLetâs keep flying even though itâs getting light,â said Twilight, the immense Great Grey Owl who flew downwind of Soren. âWeâre getting nearer. I just feel it.â
It was to the Sea of Hoolemere they flew, and in the middle of that sea was an island and on that island there was a tree called the Great GaâHoole Tree and in this tree there was an order of owls. It was said that these owls would rise each night into the blackness and perform noble deeds. The universe of owls was desperately in need of such deeds. For with its many kingdoms it was about to be destroyed by a terrible evil.
Hidden away in a maze of stone canyons and ravines there was a violent nation of deadly owls known as St Aegolius. The evil of St Aggieâs, as it was often called, had touched almost every owl kingdom in some way or another. Soren and his best friend Gylfie, the tiny Elf Owl, had both been captured by St Aggieâs patrols when they were young nestlings unable to fly. Twilight too had been snatched but, unlike Soren and Gylfie, he had managed to escape before being imprisoned. Diggerâs youngest brother had been eaten by a St Aggieâs patrol and his parents later killed. Soren and Gylfie had met Twilight and Digger, a Burrowing Owl, shortly after their own daring escape from the stone canyons of St Aggieâs.
Although the four owls had met as orphans, they had become so much more. In a desert still stained with the blood of two of the fiercest of St Aggieâs elite warrior owls, whom they had defeated, they had discovered a knowledge, along with a feeling deep in their gizzards, where all owls felt their strongest emotions. And this knowledge was that they were a band for evermore, one for all and all for one, bound by the deepest loyalty and dedicated to the survival of the kingdoms of all owls. They had sworn an oath in that desert drenched with blood and tinged with the silver light of the moon. They would go to Hoolemere. It was as a band that they knew they must go and find its great tree, which loomed now as the heart of wisdom and nobility in a world that was becoming insane and ignoble. They must warn of the evil that threatened. They must become part of this ancient kingdom of guardian knights on silent wings.
