Brotherband Book 7

[Meinard Hartmann]

Whena Skandian boy turns 16, he is required to compete in the yearly Brotherband competition, where they will camp in the woods and compete in a series of test designed to ready them for manhood. The purpose of this competition is to instruct young Skandians about becoming men.

After being introduced to the program and constructing their shelters, the Brotherbands start the training/tests/competition, which are a series of physical and sometimes also mental challenges where each brotherband competes against the others. These test can include, running, tug of war, and wolfship navigating.

In Skandia, there is only one way to become a warrior. Boys are chosen for teams called brotherbands and must endure three months of gruelling training in seamanship, weapons and battle tactics. It's brotherband against brotherband, fighting it out in a series of challenges. There can be only one winner. When Hal Mikkelson finds himself the unwilling leader of a brotherband made up of outcasts, he must step up to the challenge. The Heron brotherband might not have the strength and numbers of the other two teams, but with inventiveness, ingenuity and courage on their side, they might just surprise everyone.

They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field - especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing.

Hal and his fellow Herons have returned home to Skandia after defeating the pirate Captain Zavac and reclaiming Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal. With their honor restored, the Herons turn to a new mission: tracking down an old rival turned bitter enemy. Tursgud - leader of the Shark Brotherband and Hal's constant opponent - has turned from a bullying youth into a pirate and slave trader. After Tursgud captures 12 Araluen villagers to sell as slaves, the Heron crew sails into action...with the help of one of Araluen's finest Rangers!

The Herons take to the high seas in the action-packed eighth instalment of the Brotherband Chronicles. In a battle of Skandians vs Temujai, the brotherband are facing their most formidable enemy yet. The Heron brotherband are home in Skandia - but their usually peaceful country is in danger. The Temujai have never given up on their ambition to claim Skandia for their own. The ruthless warriors from the Eastern Steppes waited a number of years after the Skandians thwarted them last time - with the help of the legendary Rangers of Araluen - but now they're on the move.

The Herons are home in Skandia, but the usually peaceful country is in danger. The Temujai - ruthless warriors from the Eastern Steppes - have never given up on their ambition to claim Skandia for their own...and now they're on the move. Hal and his crew will have to brave the treacherous icy river and rapids to stop them, no matter the cost. Climb aboard with the Herons in Return of the Temujai, the exciting eighth installment of the Brotherband Chronicles!

In Skandia, there is only one way to become a warrior. Boys are chosen for teams called brotherbands and must endure three months of gruelling training in seamanship, weapons and battle tactics. It's brotherband against brotherband, fighting it out in a series of challenges. There can be only one winner.

When Hal Mikkelson finds himself the unwilling leader of a brotherband made up of outcasts, he must step up to the challenge. The Heron brotherband might not have the strength and numbers of the other two teams, but with inventiveness, ingenuity and courage on their side, they might just surprise everyone.

Having sold millions of his Ranger's Apprentice books all over the world, John Flanagan now has a new series on offer and it is just as swashbuckling and adventurous as his last. Brotherband is set in Skandia - a cold, Viking-inspired country that many of his Rangers' fans know well, but this time with new characters who are just as intriguing.

A rattling good story . . . Brotherband will engage and delight readers as much as the Ranger's Apprentice series does . . . John Flanagan has cleverly reinvigorated his world with this satisfying novel and its engaging central character.

They have a heavy focus on Ships and the Sea, undergoing a coming of age called the brotherband where a group of usually 10 boys operate a ship and maintain living, working and assessments, with the winner guarding their greatest treasure, the Andomal!

Hal Mikkelson, son of a Skandian hero and an Araluan slave, is a young boy who finds himself the skirl of a brotherband made out of the outcasts of Skandia. The other brotherbands are far superior in both strength and numbers, but Hal has one thing nobody else does: ingenuity.

Rewrite of what was previously known as The Broken Bow

On a fairly routine investigation into some farm robberies to the north, Gilan learns that the threat is much darker than previously understood.

After narrowly avoiding death, Gilan must rely on his friends and learn who he is if he can no longer be a Ranger.

Erika Starfollower, the grandaughter of Erak, has always yearned to become the first woman to become a brotherband skirl. To change the minds of Hallasholm, Erak brings back Hal out of his early retirement to train Erika in being a skirl. At the same time, Lydia and Ingvar have to deal with their son, Dirk, bucking expectations set on him by the greater Hallasholm society. Erika and Dirk are going to have to work together in order to make it through brotherband training all while staying true to who they are.

Basically, a scene from the brother band rewritten from the other team's Pov. It's just a one-shot now but if ONE person asks me to, I might make this a collection or something of different POV one-shots.

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