Welkin Weasels (1): Thunder Oak

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First in the successful trilogy of animal fantasies from author of The Electric Kid, Cybercats and House of Tribes. Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel - under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers - is pretty miserable (unless you hap,pen to be a weasel who LIKES living in a hovel and toiling all hours for the benefit of the stoats). It's certainly not enough for Sylver. Or for his small band of outlaws, both jacks and jills. But slingshots and darts can only do so much against heavily-armed stoats and life as an outlaw has a fairly limited future (probably a painful one, too). That's when Sylver comes up with his plan - a heroic plan that could destroy the stoats' reign of power for ever. He will find the humans, and bring them back to Welkin! And the first step is to follow up a clue from the past - a clue that lies in a place known as THUNDER OAK...

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First class, brisk-reading entertainment * Interzone *
Thrilling and imaginative and reminiscent of Tolkien * Carousel *

Author Bio

GARRY KILWORTH has written many novels for children and adults - mostly on science-fiction, fantasy and historical themes - including THE DROWNERS, which was commended for the Carnegie Medal in l992 and HOUSE OF TRIBES for Corgi in September l996. His titles for the Random House children's list include the Welkin Weasels adventures as well as THE ELECTRIC KID, which won the Lancashire Libraries Children's Book Award in l995 and CYBERCATS (both now out of print).