title: Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path #2: A Clan in Need
author:  Erin Hunter 
description: Grade 4 Up This installment in the trilogy finds best friends Ravenpaw and Barley seeking help from the Thunderclan after being driven off their farm by rogue cats. Before getting involved, the clan has to deal with a group of raiders (one of them a familiar face from Barley's past) encroaching on their borders and stealing food. Jolley does a fine job of capturing the essence of Erin Hunter's Warriors series (HarperCollins) and integrating the numerous clans with their differing codes and loyalties into a tightly paced plot. Readers unfamiliar with the earlier books can easily become immersed in the story, save for the slight confusion of Barley being the main focal point of the cover when Ravenclaw is the narrator. Otherwise, sharply drawn feral and ferocious expressions heighten tension whenever there is a standoff and add a proper dose of frenzy to the action scenes. The black-and-white drawings may have some children lamenting the chance to see the colors of the gloriously described cat fur, but ultimately it won't matter with Warriors fans clamoring for anything related to the series. <I>Joanna K. Fabicon, Los Angeles Public Library</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ## Chapter 17
  
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  #### _Secrets_
  
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  Once Delana was sure that her noxious seed had taken root, she murmured that
  it might be best if they were not seen arriving back at the camp together and
  slipped away, pushing her mare to a quick trot through the snow and leaving
  the rest of them to ride on in uneasy silence except for the crunch of the
  horses' hooves. The Warders maintained their distance behind, and the
  escorting soldiers had their attention back on the farms and thickets, without
  so much as a glance toward the Aes Sedai that Egwene could see, now. Men never
  knew when to keep their mouths shut, though. Telling a man to be quiet only
  made him gossip all the harder, just to close friends he could trust, to be
  sure, as if they in turn would not tell everyone who would listen. The Warders
  might be different--Aes Sedai always insiste