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The Ranger’s Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan is by an Australian author named John Flanagan, and its ISBN is 9 780759 320758 and 0-75932-075-6 it is also published by Random House Australia.

It is also the first book that he wrote in the Ranger’s Apprentice Series, and this story doesn’t only introduce us to some admirable characters but it also tells us about people who are prejudice or have superstitions. Then the sort of prejudice that is highlighted in this book is that people of small stature tended to be overlooked if they wanted to become a warrior.

However even though Will knew this it didn’t stop him from being ambitious, and when Horace found out that Will wanted to be a warrior Horace really sneers Will’s chances. You see unlike Horace, Will is small but as it happens that Will has a talent for climbing extremely high, on Choosing Day Will isn’t chosen to become a warrior apprentice, and in fact on the day he doesn’t know that he is chosen to do anything at all. Then as Will is an orphan, he has a burning desire to know things about his parents and in fact fantasizes about his father’s accomplishments.

Also this was what drove him to find out what sort of information that a letter contained, but Will doesn’t know that this was part of the test. Will then becomes apprenticed to Halt who is a King’s Ranger and some people are very superstitous about them and this enjoyable story is also about forming friendships through acts of bravery.