Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Guardians of Ga'Hoole: Part II

Hi!!! The second book, The Journey, is about Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger's journey to the great Ga'Hoole tree. When they land(I forgot where) the group finds Ms. Plithiver, who was Soren's nest maid snake. Nest maids are rosy-pink scaled blind snakes. They are known for their sensory skills, like their 6 sense. They think owls dignified because they warp instead of being a "wet pooper" like seagulls. They are the worst of the wet poopers, even though seagulls love wet poop jokes. Then the group continues into the Beaks. There are flecks stored inside of the landforms that look like beaks. The band forgets that they are supposed to be journeying on to Ga'Hoole until Ms. P. shouts at them because she feels a bad gut feeling in the Beaks. The band leaves, but is caught in a williwaw which is a quick, unexpected wind. This carries the owls up to the Northern Kingdoms, the Ice Narrows, and the band meets a puffin family who give them directions to the Ga'Hoole tree. As they fly through a blizzard, Soren realizes that as he flies beneath the others to hear any signs of the tree (barn owls are known for their hearing abilities), that the others might have bee drawn towards the Beaks. He worries because he is the leader of the band. The owls get close to the tree when the king or queen, Boren or Barren, leads them to the tree. Once there, the owls must be selected into chaws. Chaws are groups of owls that learn a certain thing. There are these chaws:
Navigation with the ryb (teacher) Strix Struma: Gylfie
Tracking and navigation: Twilight and Digger
Colliering (fire carrying) and weather interpretation with Ezylryb: Soren, Outlissa (a snotty stuck-up, know-it-all spotted owl who adores all of the Strixs and any owl from an acient lineage), Martin (a Northern Saw-whet owl rescued from a forest fire in Silverveil), and Ruby (a short eared owl named for her ruby-colored feathers, who is the best flier and great at catching airborne embers.)

I'll post soon!!!!!!!!!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sorry I have not posted! My favorite book of all time is the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. I'm on book 5, (just finished it). I almost cried when I could not read one! In the first book, The Capture, Soren , a barn owl, is captured from his nest when his evil brother Kludd, pushes him out of the nest. St. Aggie's captures him. St. Aggie's is an "academy for owls". The patrol guards take him from the Forest kingdom of Tyto and meet up with others at the intersection of 4 kingdoms; Ambala, Desert of Kuneer, The Beaks, and the Forest Kingdom of Tyto. There is where Soren meets Gylfie. She is an elf owl from the Desert of Kuneer. The recruits are flown to St. Aggie's in the canyons. The owls at St. Ag's moonblink them (a process in which an owl falls asleep in the moon's full shine and forgets himself) and are told to pick fro flecks (magnetic and harmful bits of iron). The owls at St. Ag's are very stupid. Soren and Gylfie wait until their wings grow and then escape St. Ag's. When they begin their journey to the Guardian's tree, on the island of Ga'Hoole across the sea of Hoolemeere, they meet Twilight, a battle loving great grey who helps the other two by seeing the dark edges of the twilight light. Then they meet Digger, whose family had been eaten and killed by St. Aggie's troops. He joins their band too. I'm going to post each book on a different post.