Sunwing

By Kenneth Oppel

Book Overview

When eternal darkness threatens to invade, Shade and Marina must journey to the far southern jungle to save the world in this thrilling sequel to Silverwing.

Shade, a young Silverwing bat in search of his father, discovers a mysterious Human building containing a vast forest. Home to thousands of bats, the indoor forest is as warm as a summer night and teeming with insects to eat. And through the glass roof, the bats can finally see the sun, free from the tyranny of the deadly owls.

Is this Paradise the fulfillment of Nocturna's Promise to return the bats to the light of day? Shade and his Brightwing friend Marina aren't so sure. Shade has seen Humans enter the forest and take away hundreds of sleeping bats for an unknown purpose. And where is Shade's father?

It isn't long before Shade and Marina are swept up on a perilous journey that takes them to the far southern jungle--the homeland of Goth, now king of all the Vampyrum Spectrum: cannibal bats with three-foot wingspans. With the help of an abandoned owl prince and General Cortez's rat army, Shade must use all his resourcefulness to find his father--and stop Goth from harnessing the dark powers of Cama Zotz to create eternal night.

In this continuation of Shade's saga, Kenneth Oppel recaptures the adventure and poignancy of Silverwing, which Smithsonian magazine called "a tour-de-force fantasy," and takes it to a new level of excitement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416949976
• ISBN13: 9781416949978
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

non-stop action

If you enjoyed the action in Silverwing you will not be able to put this one down. It picks up right where book one left off and is all action from the get-go. The whole story line gets a litte more crazy and hard to believe in this book and I didn't feel like I learned as much about bats (maybe because I had already read the first one) but I loved the book and stayed up late to get it finished. BTW, I am not afraid to admit that I am an adult, and not a "young-adult" anymore, both of these books are great and I recommend them to my adult friends as well as students. :)

A Great Adventure!

This book is a stunning book about the runt of a bat colony of Silverwings named Shade. Shade and his family are trying to find a place better than Hibercanlum wher the bats hibernate during the long hard winter. They find a Paradise place but realize that they will later get killed. Shade has a terrible canibal bat enemy. His name is Goth and becomes King of Canibal bats. Later in the sory. Shade's father was captured by them and Shade will do anything to get him back!

REMARKABLE!

when i read silver wing i couldnt wait to read this one! Another adventure with maria and that little bat shade who grows up in this unbalievable tale-- GOTH IS BACK and this time may kill all bat kinds! What will Shade and Maria do this time? And-- Shade hears his father is STILL alive- will he meet his father on his daring journey to destroy goths evil plans?

Sunwing: A fantastic sequel to a fantastic book

This is the story of Shade, a young silverwing bat. As in "Silverwing," nothing is as it seems. When he and his family and friends are trapped in a human-made paradise, everyone else seems content except for Shade, who questions the humans' motives. It is not long before hundreds bats start disappearing. Shade and his Brightwing friend Marina once again embark on a journey that takes them far south to the home of the Vampyrum Spectrum and the homeland of the evil batgod Cama Zotz. What follows is a non-stop adventure that will keep you reading through the night, but I'm not going to spoil the ending for you. You'll have to read it, yourself.

IT WAS GREAT! A MUST READ!

This book was terrific. A great buy! I got hooked toSilverwing, and was surprised/delighted to see in the back of thebook, an ad for the upcoming book, Sunwing. And I finished reading it just recently, and was totally amazed by this book. The twists and turns make the action unstopable! Read this book!