Orem Library

Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.

Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.

Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.

Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.

Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.

"Cade Quarter is on the run - wanted for the crimes of an uncle he has never even met. With nowhere else to go, he sneaks onto the Xanth Filatine, a forbidding skyship bound for the city of Hive. But he is soon forced to abandon ship for the harsh lands of the mighty Deepwoods. Cade must build a new life amongst flesh-eating bloodoak trees, fearsome goblin tribes and monstrous lake creatures. And most mysterious of all, a strange, half-formed giant...