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    Journey Across the Hidden Islands
    Journey Across the Hidden Islands
    Journey Across the Hidden Islands
    Audiobook9 hours

    Journey Across the Hidden Islands

    Written by Sarah Beth Durst

    Narrated by Michi Barall

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    The traditional Emperor's Journey is meant to be uneventful. But as the princesses Seika and Ji-Lin--twin sisters--travel to pay respects to their kingdom's dragon guardian, unexpected monsters appear and tremors shake the earth. The Hidden Islands face unprecedented threats, and the old rituals are failing. With only their strength, ingenuity, and a flying lion to rely on, can the sisters find a new way to keep their people safe?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 12, 2017
    ISBN9781501964039
    Author

    Sarah Beth Durst

    Sarah Beth Durst is the author of fantasy novels for children, teens, and adults. Winner of the Mythopoeic Award and an ALA Alex Award and thrice nominated for the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, she lives in New York. Visit her at sarahbethdurst.com or on Twitter: @sarahbethdurst.

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    • 5/5
      Sarah Beth Durst tells us a story about two twelve-year-old princesses on a hidden island who have to make a journey to renew the promises made to the dragon who keeps the islands hidden and who protects them from Koji - dangerous monsters.Ji-Lin is the younger sister - by eleven minutes. She has spent the last year at a monastery learning to be her sister's protector and warrior. She has as her companion Alejan who is a winged lion who is also young and also in training. Seika is the older sister, heir to the throne, who has spent the last year learning to be a princess and heir and learning the stories and rituals.They are both very young to take this journey and, almost right away, things begin to go wrong. Despite the protective barrier cast by the dragon, Koji are finding their way into the hidden islands. Their first stop is being plagued the something that is stealing their sheep. Ji-Lin wants to stop and fight the monster as she has been trained but Seika convinces her that the journey is more important.Their next stop has a resident Koji which causes the girls and Alejan to try to sneak around the town. They do find the residents but lose precious time on a journey that has a deadline. An encounter with explorers who are battling a water Koji also slow up their journey. On the ship from outside the barrier, they meet a boy their own age who is dying from a bite from one of the monsters. The girls know the cure and take Kirro along to cure him. He becomes their companion for the rest of their journey.Meeting him, and hearing his stories, opens the girls to new ideas - ideas that that really don't want to believe. They begin to wonder about being heroes and if what they have always been taught was the truth or just another story.I really enjoyed this book both for the adventure which should appeal to any middle grader and for the way the two girls grew and changed through the book. I am not a big fan of talking animals but I also really enjoyed Alejan who has to come to his own terms with the stories he's been told and the heroes he's admired.
    • 4/5
      Fun princess fantasy adventure story -- set in an alt-Japan, with dragons, flying lions, and twin princesses -- 1 warrior, 1 heir to the throne. It's a fast-paced read, an interesting place, good magic and a message about sometimes having to let go of tradition or lose everything. Solid!