The Lost Warrior (Warriors Manga Series #1) »

Erin Hunter is the nom de plume of three British writers who create enthralling, animal-centric YA fantasies in the tradition of Brian Jacques's Redwall books.

When the Twolegs destroy the warrior Clans' forest home, Graystripe—second in command of ThunderClan—is captured trying to help his comrades escape! Trapped in the pampered life of a kittypet, Graystripe has all the food and shelter he needs from his affectionate Twoleg family, but this is not the way he wants to live. The forest is calling him, and he never stops longing to go home. When he makes friends with a feisty kittypet named Millie, she encourages him to go in search of his lost friends. But will Graystripe ever find his way back to the Clan?

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Graystripe is a warrior of the ThunderClan. When the Twolegs invade his clan's forest, he is captured and ends up a prisoner in the home of a Twolegs family. Graystripe vows to escape before he forgets the Warrior's Way and becomes nothing more than a kittypet, but he has no idea how to find his clan. To make matters worse, the sights, sounds and smells of the Twolegs's world are scary and overwhelming. Graystripe soon meets other kittypets and teaches the nicest, Millie, to hunt and fight. Disaster strikes when he gets lost trying to rejoin his clan. Huddled in a drainpipe, sick and feverish, Graystripe dreams of the Starclan, the place all cats go when they die. Luckily Millie nurses him back to health, and together they set out to find his clan. The Lost Warrior is based on Erin Hunter's Warriors series, which recounts the adventures of a clan of warrior cats. This graphic novel is well suited to younger readers, especially if they are cat lovers or fans of this series. The story moves quickly and the b/w art does a good job of conveying the characters' actions clearly and concisely. It contains feline violence (fighting cats) and is recommended for junior high school collections that cater to younger readers (6th - 7th grades); if the Warriors series is popular at your library, it is a must-buy.