The Outcasts : Brotherband Chronicles bk.1
(Book)

Companion series to the "Ranger's apprentice" series.

Hal never knew his father. A Skandian warrior, he died in battle when Hal was a young boy, but his reputation lives on long after death. Hal, unlike his esteemed father, is an outcast. IN a country that values physical strength over intellect, Hal's ingenuity, and the fact that his mother was an Araluen slave, only serves to set him apart from the other boys his age. The one thing he has in common with his peers? Brotherband training. Forced to compete in tests of endurace and strength and to learn the skills needed to become a Skandian warrior, Hal discovers that he's not the only outcast in this land of seafaring marauders. And that his battle for acceptance has just begun.