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Booktalk
#1
Evil forces are terrorizing
the owl kingdom. Eggs are being stolen; fledglings are being kidnapped
and delivered to an orphanage where they are being brainwashed into mindless
drones. Soren, a three-week-old barn owl, is snatched but finds an
ally in Gylfie, an equally young elf owl. Together they manage to
resist brainwashing and attempt to find explanations as they plot their
escape. They overcome gruesome obstacles, meet assorted villains
and heroes, and uncover a horrifying plot involving total domination of
their world. Read the book to find out if they escape and what they
do to counteract the diabolical plans of St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned
Owls. [from review by Kathleen McBroom, Library Media Connection, January
2004] (Leigh Ann Bryant and Susannah Bryant, South
Carolina Book Awards, 2006)
Booktalk #2
“Once upon a very long time
ago, in the time of Glaux, there was an order of knightly owls, from a
kingdom called Ga’Hoole, who would rise each night into the blackness and
perform noble deeds…..”
It’s evening, and you’re a
young nestling owl, listening to the sounds of the forest around you and
dreaming of the tales your father tells you, while you wait for your parents
to return from their nightly hunt. All at once, you feel yourself
falling from your nest--- or were you PUSHED??? When rescue comes,
it arrives in the form of two strange owls who whisk you miles away to
a place you’ve never seen or heard of—the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned
Owls. But you’re NOT an orphan! You want to go home! You want
to be with your family and the rest of your clan! Read this first book
in the series The Guardians of Ga’Hoole, and join Soren the owlet in a
tale of betrayal, kidnapping, brainwashing, friendship, bravery, escape,
and non-stop adventure---you’ll want to read them all! (New
Hampshire Great Stone Face committee, 2005-2006) |
