Royal Ranger · Book 1
The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9781486201181
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning opened this spin-off series in 2013, picking up several years after the main Ranger's Apprentice story to introduce Princess Madelyn as Will Treaty's unlikely new apprentice. Originally published as Ranger's Apprentice's twelfth and final book, it was reclassified as Royal Ranger book 1 in 2018 once Penguin commissioned further sequels.
Its place in Royal Ranger
The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning is book 1 in the Royal Ranger series. It is followed by The Royal Ranger: The Red Fox Clan. See the full Royal Ranger reading order.
The Royal Ranger picks up several years after the end of the main Ranger's Apprentice series: Will Treaty, now a senior Ranger grieving the loss of his wife, is given an unlikely new apprentice -- Princess Madelyn (Maddie), heir to the throne of Araluen, sent to him after one royal misadventure too many. Across seven books, Maddie trains into a Ranger in her own right while the series widens Araluen's world further, introducing new threats and letting familiar characters from the original series -- Halt, Horace…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781486201181