num_pages: 244
description: Theo is traveling through Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's graft and corruption. But neither could have foreseen a loaded pistol in the practiced hand of the assassin Skeit. The echoes of that shot ring from the muskets and cannons of a Westmark suddenly at war-a war that turns simple, honest men into cold-blooded killers, Mickle into a military commander, and Theo himself into a stranger...With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickle, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions.
language: English
title: The Kestrel
titlecomplete: The Kestrel (Westmark, #2)
genres: Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, War, Adventure, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 3069
series: Westmark
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Children's Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Firebird Books