Wing & Claw #3: Beast of Stone

Name: Wing & Claw #3: Beast of Stone
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Linda Sue Park
ISBN: 9780062821089

Author: Linda Sue Park

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/06/2018

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Action & Adventure Stories, Science & Nature Stories

Synopsis

In this third and final installment in the enchanting Wing & Claw trilogy, Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park sends her young apothecary to the front lines of a fearsome battle, where he must rely on his talents and his friends to defend what he knows is right. Raffa Santana is a healer, not a fighter. As a gifted apothecary, he has amazing instincts for unleashing the potential of magical-seeming plants. But his skills have failed to free the animals that the heartless Chancellor captured and turned against the people of Obsidia—directly threatening Raffa’s friends and family. Now Raffa and his ragtag group of allies are preparing to confront the Chancellor’s armies in battle. Great beasts, small animals, and humans alike will be joining the fight, and Raffa’s heart yearns to prevent injuries—and worse—on both sides of the battle. After all, the Chancellor’s creatures will be fighting against their will. Can Raffa’s instincts for apothecary arts bring a tolerable resolution to an impossibly unfair fight?

About Linda Sue Park

Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medal winner for A Single Shard and #1 New York Times bestseller for A Long Walk to Water, is the renowned author of picture books and novels for young readers. She lives in Western New York. Learn more at lindasuepark.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah

Linda Sue Park isn't known for fantasy books, but she clearly put a lot of energy into creating the land of Obsidia for the Wing & Claw trilogy. Twelve-year-old Raffa Santana is in an awful predicament as Beast of Stone begins, locked in the impenetrable Garrison in the city of Gilden as ordered by......more

Goodreads review by Brenda

This trilogy is something we should be reading and discussing with our kids. Ethics, morals, misunderstanding, miseducation, bias, bigotry, disregard, inequality, exclusion, power and greed are among the topics that can be connected from this story to our current social reality. Are you more like Ra......more

Goodreads review by Emily

After finishing this last book, I highly recommend the series! It is rich with thought-provoking and important themes, is creative and clever, and is very well written. Characters aren’t portrayed as all bad or all good; they have different motivations and blind spots. There are also gray areas wher......more

Goodreads review by Jen

How does the third book have the highest rating?? Definitely the worst of the three books and it took us FOREVER to get through it because it just seemed to drag on and there was a lot of Raffa thinking he was a failure/making mistakes etc. we all knew how the story would end but it took forever to......more