<p><b><font></b><b>From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, Uki and the Outcasts is the first in a new trilogy set in the world of Podkin One-Ear.</b><b></font></b><br><i><br>¿EXCELLENT,¿ says the bard. ¿It¿s </i><i>probably a good idea for you to know </i><i>about him.¿</i><br><i>¿Wait . . . him? Who¿s him?¿ said Rue.</i><br><i>¿Uki,¿ says the bard. ¿Uki Patchwork. The </i><i>Magpie Demon. Uki of the Two Furs.¿</i><br><br>From the Ice Wastes beyond the Cinder Wall emerges an unlikely hero. Rejected by his village and left to die, young Uki is given life and unique powers by a long-buried spirit from the time of the Ancients . . . and a life or death mission.<br><br>Joined by two other outcasts ¿ a trained assassin who refuses to kill people and a very short rabbit who rides the fastest jerboa on the plains ¿ Uki must capture Valkus, the Spirit of War, before rabbitkind destroys itself in conflict.<br><br>A thrilling new book set in the Five