Title: Wild Born
Description: Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts -- a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children -- and the world -- have been changed forever.

Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. A dark force has risen from distant and long-forgotten lands, and has begun an onslaught that will ravage the world. Now the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers... and on you.


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**Books in this series**

 1. Wild Born
 2. [Hunted][2]
 3. [Blood Ties][3]
 4. [Fire and Ice][4]
 5. [Against the Tide][5]
 6. [Rise and Fall][6]
 7. [The Evertree][7]

  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17465497W
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19341927W
  [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17520603W
  [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19985156W
  [6]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19354756W
  [7]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19996584W
Subjects: Adventure, Animals, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Magic, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Human-animal relationships, Juvenile fiction, Good and evil, Shapeshifting, nyt:childrens-middle-grade=2013-09-29, New York Times bestseller, Relations homme-animal, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Métamorphose, Human-animal relationship