Shell Game (Kingdom Keepers Series #5)

by Ridley Pearson

Overview

As the five Kingdom Keepers enter high school, everything is about to change. The Maintenance Base that controls all four parks in Disney World is under attack by the Overtakers, a group determined to change Disney forever. Relationships between the Keepers are no longer as simple as they once were. In fact, nothing is as simple as it once was. An after-hours visit to Typhoon Lagoon is a game changer. The Keepers lose one of their most valuable supporters. But there's work to do . . . The Disney Dream leaves Port Canaveral on an historic cruise to Los Angeles with a special treat in store for guests: the Disney Host Interactive guides are on board! Includes a preview chapter from Kingdom Keepers VI - Dark Passage!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423153429
Publisher:	Disney Press
Publication date:	04/03/2012
Series:	Kingdom Keepers Series , #5
Sold by:	DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE -EBKS
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	158,778
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Ridley Pearson is the award-winning co-author, along with Dave Barry, of Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Peter and the Sword of Mercy, Escape From the Carnivale, Cave of the Dark Wind, Blood Tide, and Science Fair. In addition to Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark, Kingdom Keepers: Disney at Dawn, Kingdom Keepers: Disney in Shadow, and Kingdom Keepers: Power Play, he is also the author of the young adult thrillers Steel Trapp: The Challenge and Steel Trapp: The Academy. He has written more than twenty best-selling crime novels including Killer View and Killer Weekend. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.

Hometown:

St. Louis, Missouri

Date of Birth:

March 13, 1953

Place of Birth:

Glen Cove, New York

Education:

Kansas University, B.A., Brown University

Website:

http://www.ridleypearson.com/

Editorial Reviews

This is the fifth in the "Kingdom Keepers" series, a good versus evil tale of five students, now in high school, who began their story in middle school as volunteers for hologram models in the Disney theme parks. During their time as hologram guides they have become the "keepers" of the Disney "joy and magic" experience. Their enemies have been the various evil characters from the Disney repertoire known collectively as the Overtakers. The Overtakers are determined to turn the Disney experience into ones that fulfill their evil goals. All aspects of the Disney parks are involved in the adventures including creators and active employees who take sides with either the Keepers or the Overtakers. In this title, the five Disney Host Interactive guides or DHI's as they are known in hologram form, are guides on the cruise ship Disney Dreams as it makes its voyage from Florida to Los Angeles. The Overtakers are on board as well and try to sabotage the voyage. There is plenty of the supernatural or fantasy in their adventures as the tale weaves in and out of reality, as well as the appearance of characters from past and present Disney productions. Teen will enjoy the use of technological jargon in this creative tale all seemingly designed to attract more visitors to the Disney experience. Reviewer: Meredith Kiger, Ph.D.

Children's Literature - Meredith Kiger