Firewing
2000
First Published
3.89
Average Rating
320
Number of Pages
Part of Series
When an earthquake hits and Griffin falls into the center of the Underworld, Griffin’s father, Shade, must go after the newborn Silverwing bat to rescue him from the evil forces that reside in the Underworld’s dark depths. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
Avg Rating
3.89
Number of Ratings
7,010
5 STARS
31%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Kenneth Oppel
Author · 34 books
I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C. and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia...At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer. We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. I was paralysed with excitement. I never heard back from Roald Dahl directly, but he read my story, and liked it enough to pass on to his own literary agent. I got a letter from them, saying they wanted to take me on, and try to sell my story. And they did.
