Ratha's Creature (the Named Series #1)

by Clare Bell

Overview

Ratha is a young herder of the Named, a clan of intelligent prehistoric wild cats who keep deer and horses. The Named fight for survival against Un-Named cats, enemies who raid clan herds. Meoran, leader of the Named, claims that the Un-Named are no more intelligent than herd animals, and Ratha believes him, until a clash with an Un-Named raider who taunts her in Named speech forces her to question everything. Then Ratha tames a power that could upset everything. Threatened by her discovery, the tyrannical clan leader banishes her from the clan. Can a young clan herder who doesn't know hunting, use her new "creature" to survive in exile?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936917013
Publisher:	Imaginator Press
Publication date:	02/07/2011
Series:	Named Series
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	626,060
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	12 - 15 Years

What People are Saying About This

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"...the setting is richly realized, characters have vitality and credibility both as felines and as intelligent beings, and the theme of rebellion cum advancement is brilliantly developed, making this a powerful, moving, and memorable story that will draw readers right in and hold them to the final page." (Starred Review)

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"Powerfully written, the reader is immediately enveloped in a vividly recreated past world that could have easily be happening now or in the future.... Despite the turbulence of life around her, Ratha is portrayed with such sensitivity that her very fears, thoughts, frustrations and anxieties are humanly comprehensible." — Vol. 60 No.7