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OPPEL, Kenneth
Sunwing
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 1999.243 pp. Gr. 6-9. 0-00-648166-3. Pbk. $14.95
Adult and adolescent readers who loved Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing will be equally thrilled by Sunwing. The finely drawn characters of the first novel Shade, Marina, Ariel, and Frieda continue their quests in this superb sequel. Once again, readers are immersed in a fantasy world in which good confronts evil, a culture struggles for survival in a hostile world, and a child's desperate quest to find his missing father drives him into ever greater danger
Shade and his fellow Silverwing bats, along with the Brightwing Marina, venture first to seek Human help to fulfill Nocturna's ancient promise to the bats...