The Green Ember
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00T6M1C0A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A hero story, this is more Hobbit than Watership Down. More Narnia than Beatrix Potter. A new story with an old soul. That's how this book has been described by others who have fallen in love with it and I could not agree more. I was surprised to find something that reminded me, powerfully, of Edith Nesbit, CS Lewis and George MacDonald - while being something completely different at the same time.A hero story, this is more Hobbit than Watership Down. More Narnia than Beatrix Potter. And it works. I was skeptical because I usually prefer my animal characters . Wonderful story. Fun adventure. J. Hanks "My place beside you, my blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises or the end of the world!" So ends the prologue to The Green Ember. What a start! S.D. Smith's debut novel stands in stark contrast to most contemporary middle school fiction. Courage, loyalty, wisdom, and hope abound. Classic virtues are esteemed. It is moral without moralizing. It is dramatic without resorting to preteen angst. It is swashbuckling without glorifying violence. Good is good and evil is evi. "Spellbinding" according to Homeschool Reviewer. Courage, fear, loyalty, betrayal, secrets, and promise this story captured the imagination of our entire family (with children ages 1-18) and held us in its grasp until the last page.Worth every penny.
Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. Tyrants ascend, and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend. Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Kings fall, and kingdoms totter