But the first book merely sets the stage.Įnsuing books show Hal and his group (soon joined by Lydia, a girl from a another community) consistently defending the weak, outsmarting the villains, and forging friendships that nothing can sever. As readers will expect, these outcasts form a brotherband to beat all brotherbands. Their “coach”? Thorn, also an outcast, but an outcast with a lengthy history as one of Skandia’s most formidable warriors–before he lost his hand, that is. When the coming-of-age Brotherband training arrives, Hal forms a team of similar outcasts: boys who each have something that sets them apart from mainstream Skandian society. In a society of Viking-esque, burly fighters like the Skandians, a skinny inventor-type naturally doesn’t fit in. Hal Mikkelson is half Araluen and half Skandian.
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