The Green Ember (The Green Ember Series Book 1)
- 4.7 out of 5
- 9,567 ratings
- 400 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This is a fast-paced fantasy adventure aimed at tweens and younger teens, with young rabbit protagonists caught up in conflict, escape, and loyalty to their cause. Parents who want to avoid fighting and injury should know that combat and danger are central to the plot, not isolated moments. Language and sexual content are described by readers as absent, and the flagged word samples for those categories reflect non-objectionable meanings only. Violence includes training that is physically rough, attacks by predators, and wartime scenes with wounded and dead characters described in mild-to-moderate detail rather than explicit horror. Families comfortable with adventure stories comparable to classic fantasy war themes may find the level acceptable for upper elementary through early teen readers; more sensitive children may find chase and battle sequences intense.
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Violence Moderate
22The story is an adventure fantasy about rabbits at war with hostile wolves and birds. There are repeated peril and battle scenes, including sword fights, kicks and strikes in combat and harsh training, wolf bites, torn limbs, and mentions of bleeding wounds and casualties. Reviewers and sample text indicate details are toned for a middle-grade audience rather than lingering on graphic gore, though tension and injury are clearly present across the book’s action.
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Specific words
- kick: 11
- blood: 5
- bleed: 3
- smash: 2
- stab: 1
About this book
Extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives — until calamity changes everything. A modern classic of middle grade fantasy for ages 8–12, The Green Ember is the bestselling first book in an epic series of talking-animal adventure — beloved by homeschool families and devoured by reluctant readers and lifelong bookworms alike. For fans of The Chronicles of Narnia , Redwall , and The Wingfeather Saga . Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives — until the day everything is taken from them. In a single afternoon their home is destroyed, their family is scattered, and the brother and sister rabbits are cast into a dangerous world they barely understand. Wolves and birds of prey hunt the forests. A great king has fallen. And the kingdom of rabbitkind has been broken under the shadow of a cruel and powerful enemy. But there are still those who have not given up hope. There are still rabbits who remember the old stories — who still believe in the Mended Wood, the better world that was promised. Drawn into their secret cause, Heather and Picket discover that their own family holds secrets reaching to the very heart of the conflict, and that courage is not the absence of fear but the choice to stand when everything is at stake. The fate of the kingdom will not be decided only by the strong and the mighty. It may rest on the small, the frightened, and the faithful — on two ordinary rabbits who choose to be brave. My place beside you. My blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises Or the end of the world. From a series that has sold nearly two million copies, The Green Ember has become a treasured read-aloud in homes, classrooms, and homeschools across the country. It is a story of courage, loyalty, and unbreakable hope in dark times — a darkness-shaking, soul-shaping adventure that doesn’t talk down to children, but equips them for a hard and beautiful world. New stories with an old soul. Begin the adventure that has captured a generation of readers. Start the bestselling series! The Green Ember (Green Ember Book 1) Ember Falls (Green Ember Book 2) Ember Rising (Green Ember Book 3) Ember’s End (Green Ember Book 4) Explore more tales from the world of The Green Ember! Green Ember: Lost Tales Green Ember: Archer Green Ember: Old Natalia Read more