The plot isn't terribly complicated, and the violence the four diverse 11-year-old characters face includes only a couple battles and talk of an evil force from the past coming back to wage war against everyone.Īll children of Edras must drink a drop of a special nectar when they turn 11 to see if they will summon a spirit animal. The Spirit Animal series is set up for animal-loving tween readers just digging into fantasy books. Each book has a different seasoned children's author, and books are released every few months, starting in September 2013. There's a website ( ) where young readers can choose their own spirit animal and character identity and enter codes from the books they read to unlock prizes and whatnot. Parents need to know that Wild Born is the first book in a multimedia, multiauthor series from Scholastic, set up similar to its 39 Clues and Infinity Ring series. There's also talk of the war that happened when the four Great Beasts originally fell, killing off whole populations.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Rollan mentions that he may prefer prison to going back to the orphanage where he was mistreated. A mention that Abeke's mother had been taken by sickness. Meilin sees death for the first time in a battle that she flees in her home city there's a surprise attack with arrows and swords.

Some martial arts-style fighting in a ring. A climactic battle with swords and arrows leaves some people and animals dead or thrown off cliffs and presumed dead one sympathetic character is stabbed in the back and dies slowly.

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