Warriors · Book 27
The First Battle
- Published
- 8 April 2014
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780062410023
- Type
- novel
About this book
The First Battle, published April 8, 2014, continues the Dawn of the Clans arc, Erin Hunter's prequel run tracing the Clans' founding generations before StarClan's traditions had fully taken shape. It runs 352 pages, sitting between Thunder Rising and The Blazing Star.
Its place in Warriors
The First Battle is book 27 in the Warriors series. It follows Thunder Rising. It is followed by The Blazing Star. See the full Warriors reading order.
A stray kitchen cat named Rusty slips into the forest one night and joins ThunderClan, one of four rival Clans of wild cats living by a strict warrior code, and is renamed Firepaw as he trains to become a warrior. What starts as a boy-and-his-cat premise widens fast into a full political fantasy epic: Clan warfare, prophecy, betrayal, star-based ancestor spirits (StarClan) who send omens to Clan medicine cats, and generations of cats whose descendants keep driving the plot forward long after the original cast has…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798855061086
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062410023