title: The Warden and the Wolf King (Wingfeather Saga)
author:  Andrew Peterson 
description: All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameless and the Fangs of Dang. Janner, Kalmar, and Leeli--Throne Warden, Wolf King, and Song Maiden of Anniera--are ready and willing to fight alongside the Hollowsfolk, but when the Fangs make the first move and invade Ban Rona, the children are separated. Janner is alone and lost in the hills; Leeli is fighting the Fangs from the rooftops of the city; and Kalmar, who carries a terrible secret, is on a course for the Deeps of Throg. Meanwhile in Skree, Sara Cobbler and Maraly Weaver care for the broken Artham Wingfeather as Fangs muster for battle across the Mighty River Blapp.Sea dragons lurks in the waters. Wicked Stranders crawl through the burrows. Ridgerunners and trolls prowl the land. Cloven haunt the forest. Monsters and Fangs and villains lie between the children and their only hope of victory--in the epic conclusion of The Wingfeather Saga
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  # The Game Warden
  
  
  ( _first_ _version_ )
  
  
  The assignment — although exactly what he had been secretly counting on,
  despite a lurking fear that his retirement might make them decide they no
  longer needed him — in the end came unexpectedly, one might say caught him
  unprepared, for at the time when in the plainest terms sparing all empty
  formalities he thanked the “wildlife management experts for their trust,” and
  accepted their mandate, he had felt almost panicked, as one who reached his
  goal too easily, practically unhindered, without any struggle, for not only
  had he “privately counted” on this, but this was in fact what he had been
  expressly planning when years earlier he had first entertained the idea of
  retirement, hoping it would bring real liberation and a certain latitude
  “absolutely necessary for the unimpeded unfolding of his abilities, smothered
  as