RANGERS APPRENTICE

Book 7: Erak's Ransom

by JOHN FLANAGAN

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New softcover book, the seventh in the exciting series. 442 pages, published 2007.

The courage of a warrior. The skill of a thief. Meet your new hero

There is one adventure from Will's time as a Ranger's Apprentice that is yet to be told...When Erak, the Skandian Oberjarl, is taken hostage during a raid on the desert lands to the south of the Constant Sea, his second-in-command, Svengal, is sent to bring back a ransom for Erak's release.Halt and Will must go with Svengal to deliver the ransom and secure Erak's freedom, but a royal presence is needed too. The Princess Cassandra - or Evanlyn, as Will knows her - persuades her father to let her go with them. Horace and the Ranger Gilan round out the group to make sure that Evanlyn is well protected. But will violent sandstorms, warring tribes and danger at every turn keep them from reaching Erak in time?

The seventh book takes us back to the final year of Will's apprenticeship, before the events related in Books 5 and 6.

Praise and Awards Short-Listings for the Series

• Erak's Ransom is the winner of two 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards – Book of the Year for Older Children and International Success of the Year!

• Aurealis Awards - Children's Novel finalist (Books One and Four) and Highly Commended (Book Three)

• Children's Book Council of Australia - Notable Book (Books One, Two, Six and Seven)

• New York Times Bestseller - children's chapter books (Book Two)

• Longlisted for the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize 2006-07, UK (Book One)

• Nominated for the Grand Canyon Reader Award - Tween Books 2008, Arizona, US (Book One)

Other books in the series:

1. The Ruins of Gorlan
2. The Burning Bridge
3. The Icebound Land
4. Oakleaf Bearers (called The Battle for Skandia in the US)
5. The Sorcerer in the North
6. The Siege of Macindaw
7. Erak's Ransom
8. The Kings of Clonmel
9. Halt's Peril due for publication in late 2009

Books 1 - 4 are also now available as a boxed set

About the author:

John Flanagan's bestselling Ranger's Apprentice adventure series originally comprised twenty short stories, which John wrote to encourage his twelve-year-old son, Michael, to enjoy reading. The series has come a long way since then. Now sold to fourteen countries, the series has appeared on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List and is regularly shortlisted in children's book awards in Australia and overseas. John, a former television and advertising writer, lives with his wife, Leonie, in the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly. He is currently writing further titles in the Ranger's Apprentice series.

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Rangers Apprentice Book 7 Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan