Heartlight

by T. A. Barron

Overview

A young girl must find her missing grandfather-and uncover the secret he harbors that could save Earth and the entire solar system from annihilation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101650998
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/27/1990
Series:	The Adventures of Kate
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	275
Sales rank:	288,297
File size:	351 KB
Age Range:	10 Years

About the Author

T.A. Barron was a Princeton grad, a Rhodes Scholar, and a highly successful business man before he returned to his true love: books for children. He is theNew York Times bestselling author of the Merlin Saga, the Heartlight Saga, Tree Girl, The Hero's Trail, and many picture books. He has also created a Young Heros Award that rewards children who are heroic in their communities with a monetary prize for their achievements. He’s an environmental activist and is on the board of many corporations and charities. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, five children, two dogs and two goats. www.tabarron.com

Table of Contents

I	The Mystery of the Morpho	9
II	Almighty Wings	30
III	The Green Box	58
IV	The Wings of Morpheus	78
V	The Darkness	95
VI	The Cocoon	110
VII	Ariella	118
VIII	Nimba's Flight	136
IX	The Bottomless Blue	152
X	Strange Encounters	163
XI	Earth bound	180
XII	The Voice	187
XIII	Trethoniel	194
XIV	The Promise	207
XV	Apple Cider	221
XVI	The True Music	225
XVII	Grandfather's Choice	243
XVIII	Revenge of The Darkness	249
XIX	The Black Hole	261
XX	Chrysanthemums	268

What People are Saying About This

Madeleine L'Engle

"What a joy to read! The author manages to combine sophisticated concepts of physics with high fantasy in a marvelous way!"

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
T. A. Barron's debut novel, Heartlight, originally published in 1990, has become a staple of middle school reading lists. The science adventure fantasy focuses on a young girl named Kate and her grandfather, who is a famous scientist. Kate is struggling to find her identity -- her parents recently moved to a new house and, in her new school, Kate is having trouble fitting in. The only real friend she has is her grandfather, who lives just a few houses away.

Every day after school, Kate goes to her grandfather's house, where she spends time with him when he's not busy in his laboratory. His current top-secret project is creating PCL (Pure Concentrated Light), a magical substance that has the power to liberate a person's "heartlight" so that they can travel anywhere in space. When he discovers that the sun is days away from losing all its power, Kate and her grandfather use their heartlight to travel to a distant star in a desperate quest to save the world.

Heartlight, the first book in Barron's Heartlight trilogy (which includes The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect) is a perfect book for teenagers interested in fantasy and/or spirituality. The story is reminiscent of young adult classics like Lois Lowry's The Giver and Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. And although the subject of death and dying can be a somber one, the overall theme of this book is uplifting. In the words of Kate's grandfather: "I believe that every living thing has a time to die, as well as a time to be born… The important thing is that they flowered beautifully while they were alive." Paul Goat Allen