The Ember Stone: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #1) (1)

Kids love these books

{My thoughts} – This is a new series to me through the Branches beginner chapter books that have been released through Scholastic. I wasn’t quite so sure about it because at first glance it appears to be a book geared more specifically towards boys. However, I quickly learned that the story within the pages can be geared towards both boys and girls as long as they are interested in reading about an adventure.Tag is an owl that dreams to be one of the owls of Valor. He wants to be able to fight for the animals and do what he feels is right and brave. Him and his friend Skyla end up going on a mission to save an egg from some bats that are very bad. They work with a Vulture names Thorn and Thorn is after a stone called the Ember Stone. The egg they rescue happens to hatch and out pops a baby Firehawk, the last of its kind. According to the story the Firehawk, that becomes known as Blaze, is the only animal that can actually locate the stone.Eventually, Tag, Skyla and Blaze go on an adventure to try and find it before Thorn can. If you’d like to know what happens you’ll need to read the book.I really enjoyed this story and the illustrations that go along with it. I am sure that and child that enjoys reading about animals and adventures will also enjoy the book and it’s series.

My adventurous 8-year old daughter enjoyed this book! Owls in armor, what more could you want?

My 7yr old struggle with reading and comprehending what he's reading. His tutor started this book with him and I saw a switch in his excitement to read! In 2 days he was done and begging for the other books in the series.This may sound like a too easy book to read, but with my kid, getting him to read at all was like torture. He LOVED this first book. Next 6 arrive today!

My child who loves the dragon masters series absolutely loved this book.

My son (age 5) absolutely loves these books. He is a pretty early reader so sometimes books can be over his head or too scary for him, but he was obsessed with these books from the beginning. He let our 9 year old neighbor read them who wasn’t really interested in reading and his mom said it was pulling teeth to get him to read chapter books. When he started reading these, he couldn’t put them down. His mom couldn’t get him to play outside because all he wanted to do was read this series! My niece (age 7) also borrowed this series and is also obsessed and wants to “start a book club” to talk about this series! I cannot say enough good things about it! Kids of all ages rave about it and gets them interested in reading!! Worth every penny I spent on the whole series and there are a lot of kids anxious for the next book to come out!

Our son loves books, but lengthy books can lose his attention as he is still young. This is the perfect next step! The chapters are brief but well-developed. This book is so well written, and we are excited to read the whole series.

This book was great because it felt like you were there. It gave you some options to imagine what the next book will be like. It was very imaginative. I liked the adventures. It had great word pictures. I liked the fire hawks. If you like fantasy, I recommend this book.I love how there’s different pieces of the stone which will lead to different books in the series.