|a Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 106186 KB). But is he real or just a myth? Can Swordbird arrive in time to save the forest.or will it be too late? 13-year old author Nancy Yi Fan has woven a captivating tale about the birds of Stone-Run Forest and the heroism, courage and resourcefulness in their quest for peace. Sword Quest and Swordbird Reading Guide Download Add to Favorites Promote discussion about how Sword Quest and Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan convey a message of peace with the group questions and extension activities in this readers guide to the books. According to legend, only Swordbird, Son of the Great Spirit, has the power to conquer evil and restore peace to the land. But the fate of the forest-and all its inhabitants-is in jeopardy when the sinister hawk, Turnatt, turns the two bird tribes against each other. Series by Nancy Yi Fan Swordbird (2 books) by Nancy Yi Fan 3.

|a The blue jays and cardinals of Stone-Run Forest have always lived harmoniously side by side. |a 1 online resource (3 audio files) : |b digital |a Swordbird |h : |b Swordbird series, book 1. And getting a second book deal is pretty nifty as well: HarperCollins has signed her to write a Swordbird prequel, which could go on sale before she enters high school.|a B453EB98-6F53-42F0-817A-6646EF138018 |b OverDrive, Inc. “Peace is wonderful, freedom is sacred,” she says. (What’s more, she e-mailed it blind into the slush pile at HarperCollins, without an agent.) Despite her uncanny achievement, she is not a jaded child.

Her story, about warring feathered factions and a muscular supernatural hero who saves their society, retains a good-versus-evil innocence, coming alive through the vividly depicted warblers and their dialogue-especially surprising given that the young author was still polishing her English at the time. “I was shocked that a place that felt so solid and majestic was gone,” says Fan, now 13 and a Florida eighth-grader. Two years after the attacks, she was still having dreams about war. As a new immigrant from China, Nancy had been to the World Trade Center’s observatory early in the summer of 2001. Ten-year-old Nancy Yi Fan went a little further: Her novel, Swordbird, hits bookstores this week. Photo: Courtesy of HarperCollins Children's BooksĪfter 9/11, many kids turned their fear and anger about terrorism into painful drawings, intense discussions, and heartbreaking writing.