The series revolves around the time prior to and of the origin of the five Clans, and explains how they came to be. We will follow the path of the rising sun, but we will always carry the mountains, and all of you, in our hearts.' ―Shaded Moss The Sun Trail This is the fifth arc of Warriors.

' We trust the Teller of the Pointed Stones to know where our future lies. The series is also a New York Times Bestseller, with The Silent Thaw, River, and Sky notably recent books hitting that list. As of 2023, the series has sold over 50 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages, including Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Original and Unified English Braille. The series also includes several short stories and plays, official essays, a Roblox game, a Warriors Adventure Game, an official website, and a Warriors movie in development. Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry are the primary ghost writers, with Victoria Holmes formerly editing the overarching plot, and she, Tui Sutherland, Clarissa Hutton, and Dan Jolley working on supplementary material.ĭepending on how you count the books (as the novellas are comprised of three short stories), the series is comprised of 93 to 107 to 114 published books. The series was first released in 2003 and is created by Working Partners and Coolabi and is published by HarperCollins under the pen name Erin Hunter.

The Warriors series features groups of spiritual cats called 'Clans' living in the wild, following the warrior code, and honoring their ancestors.

Each series follows one to four point of view characters as they struggle to grow up and survive the dangers that threaten their Clan, both outside of their borders and within. They believe the spirits of their dead reside in StarClan, who send prophecies and signs to guide their living descendants. The Clan cats mark their borders, defend their land from enemy cats, adhere to the warrior code-a set of rules each Clan cat must follow-and train their young to survive in the forest. Later the fifth Clan, Sk圜lan, is introduced. Warriors is a series of several books, organized into multiple arcs, featuring the adventures of feral cats living in self-supporting groups called Clans in the forest- ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Warrior cats book 1