Moonrise (novel)

Moonrise

First edition cover
Author	Erin Hunter
Cover artist	Wayne McLoughlin
Language	English
Series	Warriors: The New Prophecy
Genre	Children's literature Fantasy novel
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication date	21 July 2005 (Canada) 2 August 2005 (United States and United Kingdom)
Publication place	Canada United States United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)/On-line (E-book)
Pages	304 (first edition)
ISBN	978-0-06-074452-6
LC Class	PZ7.H916625Mo 2005
Preceded by	Midnight
Followed by	Dawn

Moonrise is a children's fantasy novel, the second book in the Warriors: The New Prophecy series. The book, which illustrates the adventures of four groups of wild cats (called Clans), was written by Erin Hunter (a pseudonym used by Victoria Holmes, Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, and Tui T. Sutherland), with cover art by Wayne McLoughlin. Moonrise follows six cats, Brambleclaw, Squirrelpaw, Crowpaw, Feathertail, Stormfur, and Tawnypelt, as they return to their forest home from a journey to the ocean. They travel through the mountains, where they meet the Tribe of Rushing Water, a new group of cats first introduced in this novel. The Tribe cats are being attacked by a savage mountain lion called Sharptooth. The Clan cats eventually agree to help the Tribe get rid of Sharptooth. Series editor Victoria Holmes drew inspiration from locations such as the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands.

Moonrise has been released in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats, and has been translated into French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German and Polish. The book received mostly positive comments from reviews published in Booklist and Horn Book Review, which praised the plot and cliffhanger ending. However, a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews criticized the characters' confusing names and the writing style. Moonrise held the number two spot on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books for two weeks.