Böcker av Donald Brown

The necklace is safely stowed in the Temple of Harmony. Josh's epilepsy is cured and he no longer has visionary powers. But the 'Rebel Prince' is growing more and more powerful and looks increasingly likely to succeed in his mad plan to drive the colonists out of the Western Isles. What's more he has made a pact with the Empress of Neustria, the great southern continent - where the colonists originally came from - and is sending his prisoners in barges to work as slaves on her estates.But Josh can't understand why the Prince is still trying to kill him. And without the necklace, he is powerless to fight back. Does he know something about the Prince that would destroy his reputation? Was it a good idea to surrender the necklace, when the peace has already been broken? And what about Prunella, the young girl who should be Empress - whose throne has been snatched from her grasp by her evil stepmother? When Prunella escapes from Neustria aboard the Prince's ship, can she achieve her aim of linking up with Josh? What then?With the help of Megs, and Feathers, the elderly explorer, they have to find a way of toppling the Prince from his winning ways.

Josh, the young pirate Guardian, finds himself in danger again when pirates, who were persecuted under the colonist rule, flock under the command of a man calling himself 'The Rebel Prince.'When they try to seize his Stone of Truth, Josh learns that his stone, which keeps his epilepsy at bay and gives him special powers, is just one of three stones that once belonged to the Guardian's necklace, broken by the Rebel Prince hundreds of years ago. The necklace was forged by the Guardian as a symbol of peace between the pirates and the colonist invaders. But the prince didn't want peace, he wanted to drive the colonists out of the Western Isles. And now his descendent has the same mad plan.He wants to collect the three stones, two of which are lost, reassemble the necklace and destroy it in front of his followers as a declaration of war.Josh sets off on a pirate ship with his friend Megs, and a tiger who lived in the days of Rupert the Rebel, to recover the lost stones, restore the Guardian's necklace and place it in the Temple of Harmony in Amaryllis to restore the peace between pirates and colonists. But not all the passengers can be trusted, and the 'Rebel Prince' is spying on him every step of the way.

Josh Flagsmith is a brave, epileptic pirate boy who lives in the Guardian's House in the west of the Western Isles, where pirates and colonists live side by side. Born with visionary powers, Josh is chosen as the Pirate Guardian, and entrusted with the onyx Stone of Truth, which he uses to control his epilepsy. But when a cruel colonist dictator seizes power, and throws Josh's parents in prison, Josh has to escape, and sail to the island of Amaryllis, to seek aid from the Pirate Council. Helped by his friends, Sandy and Megs, and the dictator's cunning stepdaughter, Lavinia, Josh must find a way to rescue his parents and overthrow the evil dictator.But in order to succeed, he must first learn how to use the hidden power of his stone.

No Chicken, No Trees is an excellent source of education. Learning the importance of certain values, such as maintaining a well-balanced diet to removing judgment based on appearance, are crystallized for your child's reading pleasure. It's a timeless tale that instills lifelong lessons into every child on their way to adulthood.

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