3.+Beginning+the+novel

I am reading The Icebound Land, which is the third book in the Ranger's Apprentice series. The Ranger's Apprentice series is about a 15 year old boy named Will, who is a Ranger apprentice. A Ranger is like a spy in a land called Araluen. The other people in the story are Halt, Will's master; Horace his best friend (and they sometimes fight a little); Gilan, Halt's old apprentice; Evanlyn (aka Cassandra) who is King Duncan's daughter but pretending to be a maid so she won't be in danger or kept for ransom.

The book begins when Will and Evanlyn have just been kidnapped by the Skandians on a wolfship. They are heading up to Skandia but there is a huge storm in their way so they stop at an island. The storm in the beginning of the book was terrifying. The waves were as big as a skyscraper. Will was tied to the mast so he wouldn't be swept overboard but when he fell on the deck he was flopping around like a fish, which was hilarious. The wind was really strong. I remember some mini-tornadoes snapped some trees in half and blew the tarpaulin off the trailer and got everything soggy when we were travelling up to the beach house. Its kinda like that because it snapped trees in half and was really super strong. I saw the trees snap. Mum said it was just like they were matchsticks. They reminded me of dominoes when they topple over, one after the other.

In this book I am expecting that Will and Evanlyn will get rescued by Halt. He will need a boat for starters, because he has to cross the sea. He has two horses with him as well. He has Will's horse Tug and his own horse Abelard.