The Hatchling

The Hatchling



Credits
Author:	Kathryn Lasky
Cover Art:	Richard Cowdrey
Cover Design:	Steve Scott
Details
Publish Date:	2005
ISBN Number:	9780439739504

Summary
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The Hatchling is the seventh book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.

1 Description
2 Plot
3 Trivia
4 Gallery
- 4.1 Covers

DescriptionEdit

Beneath a shadowed moon in a cloud-streaked sky, the sacred orb splits and a hatchling is born: It is Nyroc, son of Kludd, fallen leader of the Pure Ones, and his evil mate, Nyra. Born from evil, trained to evil, Nyroc is destined to fulfill his father's terrible plan, the oppression of all owldom under the vicious talons of the Pure Ones. But doubt grows in Nyroc's heart, fed by strange forbidden legends of a great tree far away where noble owls live in peace. And a light dawns in Nyroc's gizzard, nourished by friendship. A day is nearing when Nyroc must chose to fulfill his destiny - or defy it. It will be a day of blood and terror.

Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

PlotEdit

The racist Pure Ones, a group of Tytos who believe that they alone are fit to rule, lost their king, the evil Kludd, during the final battle in The Burning (Scholastic, 2004). In this seventh book in the series, Kludd's sinister widow Nyra continued plotting to conquer all of the owl kingdoms, especially the heroic, noble owls who dwelled in the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. She raised her young son Nyroc to one day take his father's place and taught him to believe in the power of hate. But the older he grew, the more he disagreed with his mother's ways, and after he learned the horrible truth about a deadly ceremony the Pure Ones had planned for him, he realized that he had to leave his home and his mother.