01241nam a22002177a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280400027000690500015000960820012001111000028001232450036001512600037001873000025002244900036002495050007002855200694002925210018009867000019010043609FISKH20240326082043.0240326b        cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFISKbeng cFISKdFISK  aPZ7.L3274   a813.54   aLasky Kathryn  d1944-   aThe hatchling /cKathryn Lasky   aNew York : bScholastic, c2005   a221 pages : c20 cm   3Guardians of ga'hoole aBook 7   aM   aFantasy. Juvenile Fiction. HTML:

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 choose to fulfill his destiny or to defy it. It will be a day of blood and ter 8 a790 bLexile   aKathryn Lasky