Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Something is killing the Wilderland - and it isn’t natural.Timbit Sciurid has the heart of a leader and the mind of an inventor packed into the body of a squirrel. In Havenbrook, that - and having no parents - makes him an Unfortunate: fed once a day, worked from dawn until dark, and expected to know his place.Then refugees begin staggering into Havenbrook from a land being destroyed by drought.When Timbit, Pippin the rabbit, and Quill the porcupine are cast out with them, survival is only the beginning. Beyond Havenbrook they discover white-robed scholars burning mysterious circles into the earth, frightened communities abandoning their homes, a ruler whose power reaches far beyond his own territory, and signs that the spreading drought may have been deliberately unleashed.Along the way, three unwanted young creatures encounter a dying sea captain and his impossible landlocked ship. What they find there is something none of them expected and all of them desperately need: belonging. Soon creatures from five different species choose a shared name - the Mingles - and begin discovering that family can be something you build.The Mingles in Wilderland-or, Timbit’s Emprise is Book One of an illustrated animal adventure series about courage, friendship, leadership, invention, loss, loyalty, moral choices, and the struggle to do what is right when doing what is easy would be safer.Timbit must learn whether leadership means having answers or accepting responsibility. Pippin wrestles with fear, self-doubt, and the possibility that she is capable of far more than she has been taught to believe. Quill carries questions about his family and his place in the world. Together with companions they meet along the way, they cross forests, rivers, mountains, settlements, and forgotten places while uncovering the larger forces threatening the Wilderland.And their story is only beginning.As the series unfolds, each Mingle will be called to a separate quest: one to carry the memories of a dying order, one to finish his father’s greatest invention, and one to confront the wolf who nearly killed him. Their paths will diverge across Memory Groves, underground oceans, distant shores, and places where old alliances are being reforged - while the buried force behind the drought continues to connect them all.In the storytelling tradition of The Hobbit and Watership Down, The Mingles in Wilderland combines a large-scale adventure with intimate questions about courage, belonging, responsibility, grief, friendship, sacrifice, and what makes someone worthy of being followed.The book is designed for independent readers and for families who still enjoy reading aloud together. Its eighty-five short chapters create natural stopping places for bedtime reading, classroom reading, homeschool study, or family discussion.Fourth-grade sentences. Twelfth-grade words.The language is accessible enough to keep younger readers moving while introducing richer vocabulary, ideas, and moral questions that give older readers and adults something to talk about with them.For readers who enjoy animal adventures, unlikely heroes, found families, journeys across richly imagined worlds, mysteries, inventions, friendship stories, read-aloud books, and stories in which small characters confront very large problems, the road into the Wilderland begins here. 6
