Brian Jacques’s “The Long Patrol” is a stirring Redwall adventure of war and growing up, tenth in publication and twelfth in the series’ timeline. Some readers enjoy it while missing the riddles and quests they love elsewhere in the series, and find the subplot at the abbey contrived. Those who already know the Redwall world and want another war story from it will get what they came for.

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About the book

The Long Patrol is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1997. It is the tenth book published and the twelfth chronologically in the Redwall series, and it was a New York Times bestseller.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.1 across 71 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.

Source	Average	Ratings	Weight
Open Library	8.4	5	7%
Hardcover	8.1	66	93%

Frequently asked

What age is The Long Patrol for?

The Long Patrol sits on the Middle grade shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 8–12. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 368 pages — shorter than 85% of the ranked books in Adventure.