The book I am reading is Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan. Swordbird is a well written book. It takes place at Stone-Run Forest. In the forest there are many tribes. The main two are the Bluewingle Tribe of the bluejays and the Sunrise Tribe of the cardinals. There is chaos between the two tribes. Both blame the other for stealing their offspring eggs and food. The leaders of each tribe decide to go to war. Flame-back the leader of the cardinals is a cunning warrior. He is strong in attack and battle formations. Skylion,the leader of the bluejays is wise and decisive.

Aska, a young female bluejay is flying when she stumbles across a brave and clever robbin named Milton. He is an enslaved worker at Fortress Glooming. He tells her that Turnatt, an evil hawk and his army have been stealing the cardinal and bluejay eggs all along.

It is then when they realize they must team up. The cardinals and bluejays become friends again and will not rest until the blood of Turnatt is spilled and they see the downfall of his fortress, Glooming. Their only hope of seeing peace again is to have Swordbird, the mystical white bird help them. There is only one way to get him and that is with a learsorn gem and a song from the old scripture.

The bluejays and the cardinals only posess the old scripture. The gem has been lost for a very long time. To find out if they stop Turnatt from enslaving the two tribes read Swordbird.

My opinion is that Swordbird is a swell book. I've never read anything like it. It makes me want to keep reading. After each chapter it takes another twist. I can't wait to read the seaquel Swordquest.