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First published in the USA by Scholastic Inc 2003
First published in Great Britain as The Capture by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2006
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Source ISBN: 9780007418923
Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008226848 Version: 2016-12-05
To Ann Reit, Wise Owl, Great Flight Instructor
… and then the forest of the Kingdom of Tyto seemed to grow smaller and smaller and dimmer and dimmer in the night …
CONTENTS
Chapter One: A Nest Remembered
Chapter Two: A Life Worth Two Pellets
Chapter Four: St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls
Chapter Six: Separate Pits, One Mind
Chapter Seven: The Great Scheme
Chapter Eight: The Pelletorium
Chapter Nine: Good Nurse Finny
Chapter Ten: Right Side Up in an Upside-down World
Chapter Eleven: Gylfie’s Discovery
Chapter Fourteen: The Eggorium
Chapter Sixteen: Hortense’s Story
Chapter Seventeen: Save the Egg!
Chapter Eighteen: One Bloody Night
Chapter Twenty: Grimble’s Story
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Shape of the Wind
Chapter Twenty-Three: Flying Free
Chapter Twenty-Four: Empty Hollows
Chapter Twenty-Six: Desert Battle
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hortense’s Eagles
“Noctus, can you spare a bit more down, darling? I think our third little one is about to arrive. That egg is beginning to crack.”
“Not again!” sighed Kludd.
“What do you mean, Kludd, not again? Don’t you want another little brother?” his father said. There was an edge to his voice.
“Or sister?” His mother sighed the low soft whistle Barn Owls sometimes used.
“I’d like a sister,” Soren peeped up.
“You just hatched out two weeks ago.” Kludd turned to Soren, his younger brother. “What do you know about sisters?”
Maybe, Soren