Sky Raiders Author: Visit Amazon's Brandon Mull Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1442497009 | Format: PDF
Sky Raiders Description
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Sixth-grader Cole Randolph and his friends (including his crush, Jenna) are whisked away from their ho-hum lives in Arizona to the magical world of the Outskirts, a place that “lies between wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death.” Upon their arrival in the Outskirts, Cole’s friends are quickly captured by slavers, but he escapes and sets out on an epic quest to rescue them. As a stranger in a strange land, however, Cole can’t manage on his own, and soon he has met a bevy of unlikely friends—many of whom have magical abilities—as well as enemies who are bent on exploiting Cole and his new friends for their own gain. Everyman Cole doesn’t know much about the fantastical, flying-castle-filled Outskirts, but he’s ready for adventure and eager to learn. Mull’s ample world building only adds even more dimension to Cole’s noble quest. Mull has a built-in audience for this new fantasy adventure series, and fans of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series will not be disappointed. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: One million dollars for marketing? New York Times best-selling Mull’s publisher thinks he’s worth it, and fans of his wildly popular series will likely agree. Grades 4-7. --Stacey Comfort
About the Author
Brandon Mull is the author of the
New York Times,
USA TODAY, and
Wall Street Journal bestselling Beyonders and Fablehaven series. He resides in Utah, in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his wife and four children. Brandon’s greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.
- Age Range: 8 - 12 years
- Grade Level: 3 - 7
- Series: Five Kingdoms (Book 1)
- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Aladdin (March 11, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442497009
- ISBN-13: 978-1442497009
- Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I am a huge fan of Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven series but I could not get into the Beyonders. However, I think he is a very clever writer so I gave this new book a shot and I was not at all disappointed.
The book takes place in a made up land called The Outskirts. The Outskirts is made up of 5 kingdoms and ruled by someone called the High King, or High Shaper depending on who you speak to. The beginning takes place in present day Halloween, where our hero Cole and several friends go to a haunted house that is supposed to be truly scary. Well it is because inside are people from the Outskirts kidnapping children to turn into slaves. Cole manages to escape the kidnappers’ clutches but instead of letting his friends fend for themselves he follows them into this other world to try and save them.
Cole obviously gets caught (if he was able to save everyone this would have been a short book) and gets sold into slavery to a group called the Sky Raiders. In this position, Cole risks his life to go on reconnaissance missions, scouting for dangers before the Raiders go into a sky castle and take anything worth selling. Naturally this is very dangerous and Mull’s imagination runs the gamut as he dreams up scary creatures for us to encounter with Cole during these missions. As soon as he gets to Raiders’ HQ he meets Mira, an 11-year-old girl with a big secret (naturally). Mira and Cole eventually plan to escape the Raiders as her big secret causes her to change her address at a moment’s notice. Some of the places they explore after their escape are wonderfully described and obviously scary, as Mull’s specialty seems to be taking us to made up worlds filled with horrifying things that are always out to eat you or kill you, sometimes both.
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