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Dear Educator, REQUEST 20 FREE BOOKS TODAY! You and your students have the unique WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! OFFER ENDS 11/15/14. opportunity to preview four exciting new titles from HarperCollins Children’s TARGET AUDIENCE ACTIVITY THREE Books. Each of these books represents an Students in grades 4–7 THE TRAIL HOME exciting journey to a new and different Setting in Warriors: Dawn of the land filled with adventure, action, and PROGRAM OBJECTIVES Clans #1: The Sun Trail by Erin Hunter mystery that is sure to keep middle-grade • To engage young readers in new reading adventures that readers engaged and ready for more. will encourage a lifelong love of reading. 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Why are there so many PathFinders missing now? To save her people, Tod teams up with a group of Magykal characters— including ExtraOrdinary Wizard Septimus Heap, Ex-ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, Alchemist Simon Heap, and her friends, Ferdie and Oskar Sarn. Will they succeed, or are the PathFinders doomed? Meet some of the characters in PathFinder. Each has a special talent, Now, imagine that you must PART 1 and some even have their own Magyk to help out in the quest. PART 2 help Tod and her friends rescue your family of PathFinders. What Alice “Tod” TodHunter Moon: Tod is a twelve-year-old PathFinder. She is character traits would you need to help them devoted to her friends and will risk anything to save them. She can navigate on their quest? What would your personal the passages of the Ancient Ways and has her own Magyk, which she is only Magyk be? Write your description on the back beginning to learn about. Tod also knows the biggest PathFinder secret of all. of this sheet. ExtraOrdinary Wizard Septimus Heap: He is the new ExtraOrdinary Wizard and is getting used to his post. He wants to be a mentor, but even he must rely MEET THE AUTHOR on the help of older, more experienced Wizards like Marcia.