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Wikipedia article




'The Hound of Rowan' (2007) is the first book of the Tapestry Series illustrated and written by American author Henry H. Neff, about a twelve-year-old boy named Max McDaniels who comes across a strange Celtic tapestry one day in a secret room in a museum. Max finds a letter in his coat pocket afterwards that leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where other gifted students like him go.

Characters



*Max McDaniels is a twelve-year-old boy from Chicago who lives with his father, Scott McDaniels. His mother disappeared a few years prior to the beginning of the book.

*David Menlo is Max's roommate at Rowan and one of his close friends.

*Nigel Bristow is the recruiter that tests Max prior to attending Rowan.

*Gabrielle Richter is the director of Rowan Academy.

Chapters



*The Boy, The Train and the Tapestry

*Three Soft Knocks

*A Time to Choose

*The Flight to Rowan

*Evils Old and New

*The Last Lymrill

*A Full House

*The New and Weird

*A Golden Apple in the Orchard

*The Course

*All Hallow's Eve

*Secret Prisons

*Fibs and a Fiddle

*Meeting the Vyes

*Unexpected Guests

*Rowan's New Resident

*The Hound of Ulster

*Smugglers on the North Atlantic

*The Crypt of Marley Augur

*Father and Son

Reception



'The Hound Of Rowan' was nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award. Awarded the Missouri Truman Award and Northern California Book of the year.


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