Hal is an outcast, unlike his fellow Skandians he isn't large or strong. He's a thinker and an inventor that has the blood lines that make him smaller and skinnier than the massive Viking-like characters in his life. So when Brotherband training starts, when the young teenage boys get training to join wolf ships to go on raids and pillage and compete for the honor of being the year's winning group, he is one of the eight boys that remain unchosen for a Brotherband. This group of misfits end up as the smallest team out of the other teams and are almost forgotten as competition by the other teams. With the team made up of the slightly built inventor Hal, Hal's short tempered friend Stig, a near-sighted giant Ingvar who can't tell friend from enemy, a sneaky theif Jasper, the silent Edvin, two twins that no one can tell apart who constantly agrue named Ulf and Wulf, and Stefan who is a master gimic. With Hal elected as their leader, he has to pull together these odd-balls into a unified team stronger than anyone expects.
-Pages: 432
-Age: 12 and up (no inappropriate content, fighting, older characters)
-Reader Type: fantasy, action, Viking-like
-Our Rating: This amazing novel is an extension of the Ranger's Apprentice series taking place in the same places in that series but with totally new characters and a different country. This book was definitely a page turner and any Ranger's Apprentice fan will love it. It leaves you waiting anxiously for the next book with the cliff-hanger ending.
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