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ISBN-13:	9781626729506
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	05/14/2019
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	114,924
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

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10 Middle Grade Island Adventures to Thrill and Delight Young Readers

School might have started, but adventures can continue! These middle grade books will take you to far off islands, where you can fly with wind dragons, confront angry gods, meet all manner of fantastic creatures, confront hidden secrets, and try to stay safe from deadly enemies…

04/15/2019
Young Sola, a round-headed creature with gleaming golden eyes, lives on an island beset by a marauding sea monster. When it attacked the island, it was drawn to Sola in particular, making her an outcast among her fellow islanders (“Cursed girl,” mutters one crone). Determined to confront the unknown as courageously as Ila, her astronomer guardian, Sola sets out to sea, gaining two companions along the way: Hunder from Fortress Island, a young tortoise-headed warrior who’s all bluster, and Wick, a glib poet from the Isle of Wind. Her island-hopping journey introduces her to creatures welcoming and terrifying, and leads finally to the monster itself. Using polished, sure storytelling skills, Dahm offers shipwrecks, battles, and unflagging action. Underlying the story’s events is an allegory about how real knowledge comes only from seeing for oneself (“They don’t want to find the monster,” says Wick about her countrymen. “They have their verses about it... their allusions to it... none of them have seen more than a glimpse of it!”). While the ending leaves the monster undefeated and its nature unexplained, the characters are tempered by their ordeal—and perhaps there’s room for a sequel. Ages 8–11. (May)

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