DESCRIPTION:
It is the middle of leafbare, and though there is still no snow to be seen, the river is frozen solid: forcing the RiverClan cats to hunt in the woodland stretch of their territory for the first time. Cloverpaw, a RiverClan apprentice, has always imagined having her warrior ceremony with her sister Flowerpaw at her side. But Flowerpaw's naming ceremony comes and goes-without Cloverpaw. Cloverpaw's mentor, the Clan deputy Mapletail, tells her that maybe she isn't fit to be a warrior, but a medicine cat. Cloverpaw used to want more than anything to become a warrior, but now, she finds herself realizing new things about herself-and her future. When the Clan gets back from a Gathering and Cloverpaw finds that her mother was murdered, Cloverpaw will have to make a choice.