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John Flanagan - Rangers' Apprentice series.

John Flanagan lives in Australia. He always wanted to be a writer. He used to write adventure stories when he was at school. He first started writing the Rangers' Apprentice stories to get his son Michael to like reading better. Will and Horace are the two main characters in the books, and they are based on Michael and his friend Jeremy. Will does the things that Michael likes, climbing, archery and throwing knives at trees.

There are 11 books in the series. They are called: The ruins of Gorlan; The burning bridge; The icebound land; The oakleaf bearers; The sorcerer in the north; The siege of Macindaw; Erak's Ransom; The kings of Clonmel; Halt's Peril; The Emperor of Nihon-Ja; and The lost stories.

In 2008, he won the Australian Publishers Association's Book of the Year for Older Children and the International Success Award for "Erak's Ransom".