Beyonders The Complete Set: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy Author: Visit Amazon's Brandon Mull Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1442485930 | Format: PDF
Beyonders The Complete Set: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy Description
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: Beyonders
- Hardcover: 1456 pages
- Publisher: Aladdin; Box edition (March 12, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442485930
- ISBN-13: 978-1442485938
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Fabulously entertaining! As I did with my daughter when she was a teenager, I am trying to read books with my son. This goal is challenging and growing me as a reader. In other words, I'm trying a new genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy. To pursue this goal, I bought the well-reviewed boxed set of the Beyonders trilogy by NY Times best-selling author Brandon Mull. My son read through it so quickly that he finished the entire trilogy before I even began the first book. That's how much he loved it. He's a sixteen-year- old obsessive gamer who took time away from his games to read this series.
The main character, Jason Walker, is an average teenage kid who falls into a hippo tank at his volunteer job and is magically transported to the world of Lyrian. The jaws of a hippo serve as the magic portal. Quite funny, right off the bat. Then there are riddles to be solved, dangerous characters to avoid, the appearance of another Beyonder (people from Earth)in the form of a teenage home-schooled girl named Rachel and a heroic quest.
One of the first people that he meets is the Loremaster (a librarian). Then there is the displacer, one of a breed of characters that can attach and unattach his head, hands, and other parts at will. Disgusting but also handy. Edomic is the language of creation spoken only by the wizards (of which there is apparently only one left and he is evil).
Vocabulary words:
Traversing
Auditory
Aperture
Frieze
Funny quote: Jason was "relieved to have found an actual, non-furious person" (p. 35).
Interesting image: "It looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly" (p. 77).
Philosophy: "People find meaning where they can" (p. 82).
For discussion: What makes a hero?
Beyonders The Complete Set: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy Preview
Link
Please Wait...