Return to the Clans
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| Author | Erin Hunter and Dan Jolley |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Don Hudson |
| Cover artist | Don Hudson |
| Language | English |
| Series | Warriors |
| Genre | Children's, Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | June 9, 2009 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | pp 112 |
| ISBN | 978-0061547935 |
| OCLC | 288520388 |
| LC Class | PZ7.7.H86 Was 2009 |
| Preceded by | Escape from the Forest[1] |
Return to the Clans is an original English-language manga volume written by Erin Hunter as part of the Warriors series. It is the third and final in a trilogy following Sasha, a fictional wild cat trying to learn how to live in the wild. It was released on June 9, 2009.
Plot Summary
Sasha has gone back to the forest to raise her three kits by Tigerstar, Hawk, Moth and Tadpole.While hunting for her kits she gets caught by a ShadowClan patrol. Afraid that they will take them she lies and says they died from the cold. She lets them play outside but when they come back in she tells them about Ken. Later she lets them outside and Russetfur walks in on them. Russetfur guesses that Tigerstar is their father. The next day Sasha goes out hunting and the kits go out to find Ken because they want to make their mother happy. They go into Twolegplace and get confronted by BloodClan warriors. They run from them. Meanwhile Sasha has come back to find her kits gone. She goes out to look for them when she is joined by Shnuky. The kits go into an abandoned looking Twoleg nest. They go through a basement window when the last kit pushes down what was holding the window up. They become trapped. Sasha, still trying to find the three gets confronted by the same BloodClan warriors. In the basement a pipe blows and water leaks rapidly from it. Sasha rescues Hawk and Moth, but Tadpole supposedly drowns. That night she dreams of Tigerstar and asks if Tadpole is with him. Tigerstar says no but confides that he is safe. Sasha later meets with Pine and he takes her and the kits to a barn where another she-cat lives. After Pine leaves the she-cat attacks the kits and Sasha. Then Sasha gets attacked by the queen herself (Hawk and Moth are attacked by the she-cat's kits) but Sasha beats her. She leaves with the kits to go to RiverClan. In the outskirts of the territory, Sasha tells the kits who their father is and says that it's their secret. Once they start to progress they run into a RiverClan patrol. Sasha tells them that she and her kits wish to be warriors. At first they don't agree but then they do because their nursery is almost empty. When they get back to camp the kits get their apprentice names but Sasha refuses. Not long into their apprenticeships they see kits from the nursery pretending to be Tigerstar. They ask Sasha why they acted like that about him. Sasha tells them the truth about the truth about him and makes them promise again that that was their little secret. Later Hawkpaw and Mothpaw discover the remnants of Bonehill. Then Leopardstar lectures them on how horrible Tigerstar was and how much pain they suffered because of him. Later Sasha decides Clan life isn't for her, but her kits stay.
The cover features Tigerstar and Sasha and their three kittens at the bottom.