Title: The Kestrel (Firebird)
First published: June 10, 2002
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.
Subjects: American Fantasy fiction, War stories, Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Imaginary places, Fantasy fiction, American, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Juvenile fiction, War and society, War, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Westmark (imaginary place), fiction
People: Theo, Mickle
LC classification: PZ7.A3774 Ke 1982