The Burning (Guardians of Ga'Hoole, #6)

The Burning (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #6)

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A great battle is on the horizon and drawing near. In preparation, Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war.

Meanwhile, St. Aggie's has fallen to the Pure Ones. It they are not stopped, they will launch another, more deadly attack against the great tree. And without allies from the north, Ga'Hoole will sur...more
Paperback, 209 pages
Published November 1st 2004 by Scholastic Paperbacks
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Peter.b
This book is about the world of owls, with two sides on opposite means. The Guardians of Ga'hoole are noble owls, who respect each different type of owl and learn great things at the Great Tree of Hoole. While on the other end of the line, are the bad owls, usually the ones that call themselves the Pure Ones, are evil and vile in every way, with different beliefs than other owls. The Pure Ones are group of owls who have "tyto" in their scientific name and are grouped together to rid the other ki...more
Rivkah
This book series just keeps getting better and better as the series progresses. I love the prologue of this book, guardians at last! And Otulissa is getting less snotty, or giving out a bit less information of everything she knows.
The Chaw of Chaws, along with Martin and ruby and I think some other owls must go out to different locations, splitting of at the ice narrows to get information and rally glauxian brothers and sisters.

Does this have anything to do with the owl Hoole? Because they thing...more
Charlie

Imagine, you are a Barn Owl leading the most proficient team of recently promoted Guardians over a vast sea called Hoolemere into the dangerous and unpredictable land of the Northern Kingdoms. This is the view of Soren, one of the many main characters in Kathryn Lasky’s The Burning.

In the prologue, the Chaw of Chaws (chaw can mean team or class, but in this case it means team) receives their Guardian Ceremony, which gives them full recognition as Guardians of Ga’hoole after they swear to do c...more
SKCircles
Me voici de retour auprès du jeune Soren et de ses amis ! L'incendie est le sixième tome du cycle destiné à la jeunesse Les Gardiens de Ga'Hoole, de Kathryn Lasky. L’histoire se passe dans un monde imaginaire essentiellement peuplé de chouettes et de hiboux, et on suit les aventures de Soren, une chouette effraie mâle en formation au Grand Arbre de Ga’Hoole pour devenir Gardien, et défendre le royaume. Dans L’incendie, lui et ses amis sont envoyés dans les Royaumes du Nord pour recruter des alli...more
Ashley
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Paul
Jun 16, 2008 Paul rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone and anyone!
It was a wonderful book! It was filled with action and suspense! I think this is one of the best books I have ever read! I was a very good book!
Amara
With The Burning comes the end of the series' focus on Soren, the Band, and the Chaw of Chaws. (At least so far as I've read at this time of writing, which is up to To Be a King. The focus changes again after that, but from where we seem to be going, it looks like it's going to be Coryn's story from The Golden Tree to the end.) It's a massive disappointment, of course, as the Chaw of Chaws was the single best aspect of the story. As a matter of fact, they're just about the only aspect that make...more
annik
О шестой книге про совушек могу сказать две вещи. Она про север, и за одно это ей респект. И в ней отсутствует любое развитие персонажей, это опять набор событий в заранее определенном порядке.

Северные совушки порадовали :33 Ледяные Клювы и дивизия Глаукса Быстрокрылого... Романтика севера накрывает с головой. Суровые аскетичные совушки, живущие среди ледяных пиков и говорящие на кракиш.

Erraghh tuoy bit mik in strah.
Erraghh tuoy frihl in mi murm frissah di Naftur, regno di frahmm.
Erragh tuoy...more
Mr. Graham
The Burning is the sixth book of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. It was a good story with a plotline continuing from the previous books, and a great resolution when Soren's brother and archenemy is killed. There are a few references to burning throughout the book, but not nearly as strong a theme threaded through as there was in The Shattering.
We are introduced to the Northern Kingdoms for the first time in the series. We find that they speak different languages, have different weather, and...more
Tntexas
Six books in and it seems that we've finally reached the end of the first act. (I say that because the summary for the next book sounds like we'll be shifting gears quite a bit.) This book was better than the last two in that it didn't feel like major chunks of the ending had been edited out, but I feel like the story that has been told so far has been dragged on longer than necessary and could have easily been told in 3 or 4 books instead of 6. Still the kids and I enjoyed this book quite a bit...more
✿Piper✿
I was disappointing with the ending battle in this book. I think Soren should have been the one to "finish the job". I was also disappointed with Soren's decision to leave Gylfie. He should have told the others to go back and stayed and looked for Gylfie.

On a different note, I still enjoyed the book. I just love Ezylryb. :-) He always makes me laugh. He reminds me of Dumbledore, in Harry Potter. It would be a really horrible if something were to happen to him.
Brody
The overall massage of the book is that you need others to help you because if you don't get the help you need you'll fail. like in school it only get harder each year and you need help to pass school. i got this from the book because in the book is is a draw war until the pure ones took over the largest fleck supply on earth and used flecks as a weapon and the guardians need help to win the war so they ask the most powerful army to help.
Lexie
This was definitely an interesting story, just like all the rest of them, and I enjoyed reading it. However a lot of the scene breaks and chapter endings felt very abrupt. Like it was totally the wrong place to end, or that the scene had gone too long or been too short. This hurt the way the story flowed and made it feel kind of choppy in some places.
All in all though, I did enjoy the book and will definitely read the next one.
Will Roberson

this book will keep you entertaned until the end were the author give you a surprise this book is intresting if you like books that have animals that are personalized. it is also a good action book with suspence and surprise.the story starts in the northern kingdoms were the chaw of chaws learns to fight with ice weapons so ottulissa's invasion plan can go into full swing ......read the book to find out what happens next!
Misty Morgan
This book was the first major disappointment that I have had reading this series so far . . . it seemed a little rushed and what should have been the big climax battle of the series was over in the span of three sentences. I understand that it is just an intermediate book, but Lasky can do better than that. Anyway, I'm giving this series a rest for a while in order to get some of my other series read.

Alex
whoo....


...still in the middle of the series, so the verdict is still out, but it occurred to me today, that if these books had come into the life of 5-year-old Alex, they would have been my absolute favorites, and I would have read, reread, and rereread them hundreds of times growing up. As it is, they weren't even written until I was 25, so I have to view them on those merits...
King Hoole
I sure cant pick a favorite in this series but this one's close. It's filled with action and adventure. And an battle scene that fans have been waiting for. Not only do these books bring action in a whole new sense but there's so much to learn from them. Virtues (to name a few) like honor, nobility, sacrifice, strength, determination, purity of heart, and belief in legends.
Amy
May 02, 2011 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shelves: fantasy
JUSTICE!!! BYE BYE, KLUDD!!!!!!!

:D

Pardon my excessive exclamation points, but I really hated Kludd. It's really hard to like a character who's been given a wonderful home to grow up in, only to attempt fratricide and teach that certain owls are OBVIOUSLY superior to others. Kludd's mate, Nyra, is no better.

Anyway, good job to Twilight. He ended a great evil in this book. (I also loved how he bullied the vultures. That was hilarious!)

Onward, to glory! (And more books!)

:D :D :D
May
Well, this is the first book I have finished since I signed up. I love owls and these books are the reason. I read them in second or third grade, and they were great. After the movie came out I wanted to reread them. They are as good as I remember! They are for a younger age but have lots of information and good vocabulary. Any one can read them!
Sparks
The borning Is the sixth book in the Guardians of Ga'hoole series. St.Aegolius has forlen to the evil Pour ones. Fearing an attack by the Pour ones. the Guardians have no chouse but to have the Chow of Chows Travel to the northan kingdom in hops of recruting an army of their own. my likes and disliks are still the same and so is my recomendation.
Frishawn Rasheed
I was so glad when the Parliment agreed with Otulissa that the Guardians should strike the Pure Ones first rather than wait for them to strike . Especially after the fall and takeover of St. Aggies by the before mentioned Pure Ones; giving these evil owls control of the largest collection of "flecks" known to owlkind.
In order to thwart the plans of the Pure Ones; the "Chaw of Chaws" is sent on a mission to the Northern Kingdoms. This book is so much better than the others. It seems that the bo...more
Frankie
Can the Chaw of Chaws fight with both fire and ice? Why is Nyroc born without a father, and who is he in the first place? What does Ezylryb's turnfeather brother, and Gragg, the turnscale Kielian snake have to do with Gylfie's survival? Find out by reading this amazing book...
Hannah
This book kind of ended a little part in the Guardians' series, kind of like a season finale in Avatar. It just totally changes everything. For a while after i read this, I thought the series was over. Until I went over to Elsie's house and she had book 7. :)
Kirsti
I always read books before I let my children read them. . .I'm really enjoying this series. I grew up in a birding family and we lived across from a field of burrowing owls. What fun it is to get into the minds of these fictional owls!
Hnasman
These are kids' books, of course, so there's a certain amount of corniness and convenient plot fixes... But I still enjoy reading them -- they're adorable! The owls journey to the North, encountering owl pirates, monks, and polar bears, learning from Nordic warriors that speak "Krakish" to wield ice weapons. I enjoy Lasky's mixture of creativity and natural history, which while entertaining children, also teaches them a decent amount of zoology. And of course, you can read these in an evening; t...more
Erin
Dec 06, 2010 Erin added it
The woman is simpily brilliant. Many author's books quality die down as they go down the series. In this case it is completely backwards!!!! I recomend this to anyone who has read the first five.
slippers
i think that this book is very good because the chaw of chaws finally get the permission to travel to the northern kingdoms to get recruits for the up coming invasion on st. aggies, but ezylrybs brother Ifghar is tring to help st. aggies beat his brother so that the great ga hoole tree falls and he can become the leader that he should have been all along
Karen
My 8-year-old gives this 5 stars. My 3 felt a little generous for portions, just because there were plot holes, again, and a fairly anticlimactic end to one story line that had carried over several books.
Kristen Gurri
Its a nice series that deals with some serious issues and plot twists. However, I must admit that by book 6 I'm enjoying Colin's company and discussions about the books more than the books themselves. Lasky is eliciting some deep thinking from an almost 8 year old.
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Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book, Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 15: The War of the Ember, was released on November 1, 2008. Guardians of Gahoo...more
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“Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice.

He did indeed, madam," Ezylryb replied. "Soren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion.”
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