Rowan of Rin: the journey. Emily Rodda. 2006.

All five books in the award-winning Rowan series bound in one volume.

In a tightly paced series of adventures the hy, self-effacing boy Rowan, an unlikely hero, takes on one exciting challenge after 

 To save first his village, then his people and finally the beasts he loves bet, the gentle bukshah. The adventures are thrilling, the monsters terrible and the characters memorable.