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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)
Booktalk
#3
If you like to read a book about magic, betrayal, mystery, and owls, “the Capture” written by Kathryn Lasky is the right book for you. Ever since Soren was little his dad told him about the legends of the Guardians of Ga’hoole. The noble owls who rise in the night and protect the weak and the broken and vanquish evil. One day Soren fell out of his nest in the Tyto forest and is taken to a school for orphaned and abandoned owls with his new friend Gylfie. But what is the school really for, Learning to be better owls, or something worse? And what will happen to them? Will they get home to their parents or die trying? Find out by reading “the capture”. (Adriana, arak4350@hwdsb.on.ca, k-12 student)
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