![]() Instead, Frieda takes Shade to an Echo Chamber storing the history of the bats and their rivalry with the owls. Four elders, Bathsheba, Aurora, Lucretia and Frieda, try to discipline Shade at Tree Haven, the Silverwings' roost. When Chinook backs down from the challenge, Shade looks at the sun, attracting the attention of an owl. Shade challenges Chinook to look at the sun, an act forbidden by the owls. ![]() He lives with his mother, Ariel, and is bullied by other newborns, especially Chinook and his friends, for being the runt of his colony. ![]() Shade is a young Silverwing bat whose father disappeared before he was born. Silverwing is the first installment of the Silverwing series, though it is chronologically the second novel in the sequence after Darkwing. The tone and artistic ambition of this series of bestsellers has been compared to the classic animal novel Watership Down. It tells the story of a colony of silverwing bats. ![]() Silverwing is a best-selling children's novel, written by Kenneth Oppel, first published in 1997 by HarperCollins. ![]()
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