Warriors: The New Prophecy #3: Dawn

by Erin Hunter

Book Overview

Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series continues with the third book in the New Prophecy series The third book in this second series, Warriors: The New Prophecy #3: Dawn, brings more adventure, intrigue, and thrilling battles to the epic world of the warrior Clans. The young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: the Clans must move to a new home or risk extermination. But the dangers waiting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060744553
• ISBN13: 9780060744557
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Loved it but...

I bought it like new but somehow I got acceptable, worse I got it in paperback (I wanted in the paperback) acceptable. Please don’t do it again.

a dark end leads to a hopeful new beginning

the five clan cats of the six return home safely, and terrible news await them. cats have been taken by twolegs and the twolegs are destroying the forest with their monsters. squirrelpaw's beloved sister leafpaw goes missing, cloudtail & brightheart are taken by twolegs as well as many other cats in other clans. the five clans must desolate the forest, or the clans would perish along with the forest. thunderclan, windclan, and shadowclan are willing enough to leave the forest, but riverclan are not as easy to convince because they still have an abundance of fish in the river and are unwilling to just throw them away. as time goes on, more tragedy occurs, some good happens to the clans, and there is a bit of romance with squirrelpaw & brambleclaw. what awaits them in the end is a whole new beginning. dawn was the most amazing, the most action-packed of all the warriors books. this book really showed the emotions of each cat and their feelings for one another. dawn was the first book in the series to have all five clans work together as one, from the beginning to the end. i am now awaiting starlight and the rest of the series to come.

Perfection at its Best

This was such a good book! I mean literally, I think Im the first person in my hometown to read, if not get, this book. i was posed at the bookstore at nine o clock. well, anyway this was an amazing book. second only to the darkest hour, the explorers come back with the news that thaey have to leave. everybody in thunderclan was more than willing, but they still felt the rifts between the clan strongly and they risked leaving certain cats behind. leafpaw is trapped in a cage, and squirrelpaw will risk anything to get her out. a certain cat is lost and may be dead or turned into a kittypet! i felt like i wanted to kill those people 4 destroying the forest becaus erin hunter did such a good job portraying the feelings of these cats. so please, get this book. you'll love it!

the darkest and best one of the new prohpecy

once again, erin hunter astonishes you with another great read of everyones favorite forest cats. so far, hunter brings her darkest chapter to the new series that never holds back anything. i think thats why these things are so good, cause hunter never holds back and will do anything for a good read. after a long journey, the five cats have returned home to find it completly ravaged by the twolegs. now all they have to do is one thing...convince the clans to leave the forest. but doing this is beyond maddness when the clans have lived her for so many years. and how could they convince four waring clans to come when they dont even know were to go? riverclan refuses to leave and shadowclan wishes to go solo, even that cinderpelts ominous warning still rings for each clan. not only that but what about the missing cats? leafpaw can only wait inside her twoleg prison hoping for a miracle. can they convince them all to leave there home? or is it already to late? read this great read, for when your done you would be drooling for starlight, the next in the new series.

More of the Same; And 'The Same' is Exellent!

Yup, Erin Hunter's done it again. This new addition has given readers no more or less then they expected; a completely staisfying read, DAWN follows the five remaining heros and Leafpaw exactly where we left off. The book begins with a shattering discovery; the Twolegs, who had been destroying the forest at alarming rates, cut down the fourtrees. Every Clan, already weakened by starvation, took this as a sign that Starclan had deserted them. Then Brambleclaw, Squirrelpaw, Tawnypelt, Crowpaw, and Stormfur return, bringing hope and news that not all the Clans accept. Leopardstar in particular refuses to leave the forest when the Twolegs have gone nowhere near her territory. Meanwhile, ThunderClan has more pressing matters to deal with. It soon becomes apparent that Brambleclaw is not the only one with strange dreams; Squirrelpaw, after a night-time visit by Spottedleaf, she and a patrol of ThunderClan cats are able to rescue Leafpaw, Cloudtail, and the other trapped Clan cats (including a kittypet that just might become one). Unfourtunantly, their victory is not unhindered; they lose Graystripe to the Twolegs. Finally, all the clans agree to travel together. With the help of 'a dying warrior' - though not the sort anycat expected - the cats, now one bedraggled clan, make their way over the mountains. It's great to see the characters mature, and the relationship between Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw is predictable but heartwarming. There is also the reappearance of the Tribe of Rushing Water, first seen in MOONRISE, and of Brook, a tribe she-cat that stole Stormfur's heart. Together the Clan cats face death, love, loss, and struggle with loyalties. Hope is a big theme this book; the hope of the Clan cats, struggling as they never have before to find a place where they belong and can reside in peace. I cannot reccomend it more highly.

Dawn

As usual with the Warriors books, Dawn picks up right where Moonrise left off: The questing cats are just now returning home with their news that the four Clans must leave their forest home in search of a new one. But many things are holding them back, including the fact that three ThunderClan cats have been taken by Twolegs, including Squirrelpaw's sister Leafpaw. As the Twolegs destroy more and more of the forests, the Clans reluctantly realize that they have to work together and search for a new home as one Clan. You get Squirrelpaw and Leafpaw's point of view from this book, which is good, because you finally get to see that Squirrelpaw really is one of the questing cats, and not just the annoying appentice that she was in previous books. Her relationship with Brambleclaw, which blossomed all the way back in Midnight, grows more in this book. There is also more about the rest of the ThunderClan cats that were so important in the previous series and were before just background in The New Prophecy. Also, Firestar makes a comeback from the father figure he was turned into in Midnight. In Dawn you get to see more of the hero that he was as the main character in the first series. The Tribe cats also return, and a new kittypet character, a friend of Leafpaw's, is introduced here. All in all, Dawn is the best of the New Prophecy series, and I recommend as much as any of the other Warriors book. Like many others, I'm now awaiting Starlight, the next book in the series.