Animal Totem : N° 6 - La chute

Deep in the desert there sits a beautiful oasis, ruled by a monarch unlike any other in Erdas. His name is Cabaro, the Great Lion, and he reigns over a kingdom of animals, jealously guarding his golden talisman. No human has ever set foot in the Great Beast's territory. The journey to his oasis is impossible.

As a team, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have achieved the impossible before. But now the team is broken, the friends scattered by a devastating betrayal

The young heroes and their spirit animals have already sacrificed much in their quest for the talismans. But with the world crumbling all around them, and a ruthless enemy opposing their every move, their greatest sacrifices are yet to come.

Eliot Schrefer is the author of Endangered, a 2012 National Book Award finalist in Young People's Literature. He is also the author of The Deadly Sister, The School for Dangerous Girls, Glamorous Disasters, and The New Kid.

Eliot is a graduate of Harvard College. A contributor to The Huffington Post and a reviewer for USA Today, Eliot has been profiled in Newsweek, New York Magazine, the New York Post, Women's Wear Daily, and NPR's The Leonard Lopate Show. He was selected as one of the 2007 "Out 100," and as a fellow to the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He lives in New York City. Visit him online at www.eliotschrefer.com and on Twitter @EliotSchrefer.