The Capture (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 1) by Kathryn Lasky
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Book Reviews of The Capture (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 1)
Book Review: Action packed, escaping owls
Summary: 5 Stars
Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole is looking like a really great series so far. This author has a very big imagination, and a very stretched vocabulary. This book, #1 The Capture, is very different and I'll tell you why.There are no people in this book. Just owls. In this book, the owls have dialouge. They're regular characters in the story. It's very exciting to see and think what the owls see and think to each other. I thought that this was very interesting to see how the owls interacted like people. So I kept reading, and started to really like this book.
Soren is a baby owl, just about 2 weeks. He is a barn owl in the kingdom of Tyto. He has a newborn sister, Eglantine, and an older snobby brother Kludd. Soren is living a great life with his parents until he falls out of his nest onto the floor of the woods, or maybe, pushed out. Soren is then scooped up that night by an older adult owl, and taken to an academy for orphan owls. Soren does not like this, he's not an orphan. Soren meets a smaller owl around his age that was also captured. His name is Gylfie. Soren and Gylfie do not like this place, its weird, and scary for them. Soren and Gylfie figure out that this is not a good place to hang out for a while. They have to get out, but how. They have to fly, something that they are not capable of doing as an owlet.
I really recommend this book because, youm really do not want to stop reading. Theres constant action, and constant thinking between the owls. This book is not to long if your worried about that. It's only 235 pages with a chapter about the sequel, The Journey. It's deffinatly action packed when the owls escape. You definitally do not want to stop reading #1 The Capture, and all the other, Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole books.
Book Review: "The Capture" just . . . well . . . captures you!
Summary: 5 Stars
It seems like a seemingly peaceful life for Soren, a young Barn Owl. A nice nest, a kind-hearted nest-maid (Mrs. Plithiver, a blind-snake), loving parents, and a beautiful sister named Eglantine. His brother, Kludd, seems a bit nasty at times, but all in all, Soren has the perfect life. But he is pushed off his nest by the jealous Kludd, and is captured by patrols from a mysterious place called St. Aggie's. The place is horrible: Skench and Spoorn are the brutal head owls, Jatt and Jutt are the wicked lieutenants, and Auntie Finny and Unk are the suspiciously kind pit guardians. The purpose of the academy is oddly enough, "flecks," which are "more precious than gold." Soon, Soren meets a friend: a bookwormish small Elf Owl named Gylfie. With Gylfie's mind, the two escape the evils of moon-blinking and moon-scalding -- ways of brainwashing owls into nothingness. Thye meet Hortense, who is secretly pretending to be moon-blinked so he could smuggle stolen eggs out of St. Aggie's with the help of his eagles. He is caught and thrown off of a cliff to his death below. They also figure that Grimble, a St. Aggie's patrol, is not completely moon-blinked. They are right . . and with his help, they learn how to fly. Skench catches Grimble after Soren and Gylfie fly off, and Grimble is killed. The pair of owls meet a smarty-pants owl named Twilight and a strange little owl named Digger. Jatt and Jutt are killed trying to eat Digger (they ate his brother and parents, by the way) After the bloody battle in the Desert of Kuneer, the four owls band together and seek the mythical Great Ga'Hoole Tree to alert the owls of the evils of St. Aggie's. The story continues in "The Journey."Book Review: The Owl Search
Summary: 5 Stars
The Owl Search
(The Capture)
By Kathryn Lasky
Reviewed by Justin Dierkes
Do you want to read a great book? In this book an owl named Soren is snatched from his hollow as a two week old barn owl. He gets brought to a school for orphans called St. Aggiess; Soren is not an orphan though. While there he meets Gylfie a little elf owl who has fully fledged flight feathers. Together they learn about moon blinking and moon scalding. They also try to figure out what flecks are but they can not because they aren't to ask questions. Soren and Gylfie meet a D.N.F. (Designated not to Fly) owl named Hortense. She is a caretaker for a special room. They think she is moon blinked, and will help them escape. Then an owl named Grimble comes in and tries to help Soren and Gylfie fly.
Will they escape the dreaded St. Aggies? Is Hortense really moon blinked? My opinion is that if you like fiction books read this book. It is a great story with many tragic events, and the characters are great. Also the authors writing style made me interested in the book, because she described the characters in complete detail such as with Soren she told what features he has. Her writing made me excited and nervous, because she puts all her characters in perilous scenes. So I recommend this book to everyone.
About the characters
Soren is a curious barn owl who asks a lot of questions. He also does not know what most owls do.
Glyfie is a tiny owl about half the size of Soren who says really big words for his size.
Book Review: Can't wait for the Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well this is one of my favorite books ever, I got them last year [books 1-6] and once I read book one I was attracted to them like a cat to a small mouse. I think some of the best qualaties of this book [and series] was the briliant fast pace, tad bit of humur, and the expertly discribed charecters that make the owls seem like people well at least the "good guys" did.
The story starts out in a small hollow in a pine tree in a forest known as Tyto where Barn Owls thrive where a small young male Barn Owl named Soren lived [with a family of coarse]. Soon though he somehow falls from the nest and is snatched by this Great Horned Owl. The Owl wasn't what Soren would call nice either. Well then the Owl alights down from the sky to this stone canyon where a so-called academy where questions are discouraged and owls sleep at night is and where that Great Horned Owl "worked". So he is forced to atend the academy where you have a number instead of a name! There Soren the now orphaned young [unable to fly yet] meets a quick thinking elf Owl named Glyfie (my fav charecter} who is hardly larger than a mouse. Together they fiqure out what is going on there and discover shocking secrets not to mention if they are going to escape they will need to learn a new thing, flight but who would teach them at this upside down "academy"?
Recently I have found out that they are making an animated movie [not cartoon animated but stuff like the Disney movie The Wild coming soon} with the author, Kathryn Lasky script writer!
Book Review: The Capture and The Journey
Summary: 5 Stars
By Kathryn Lasky
Scholastic Inc.
New York
© 2002-2004
Soren, a barn owl, was born in a hollow tree in the forest of Tyto to his mom, pop, brother Kludd, and soon to be sister Eglantine. Soren lives in a fantasy world with all different landforms in different sections. Soon after Soren's birth his parents went hunting. His mean brother, Kludd, pushed him out of the nest and Soren couldn't fly. Soren was picked up by an owl and was brought to St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls in the canyons. Here they were told to march, but Soren met a new friend Gylfie who said don't march. Gylfie told Soren they were hypnotizing the rest of the owlets. As they secretly go on not marching, Soren learns to trust in Gylfie, a true best friend. Also, Soren learns to overcome what happened with Kludd and to believe and trust in other owls. Soren and Gylfie must face St. Aegolius Academy by secretly escaping by learning to fly. They will try to travel to the legendary Great Tree, Gahoole. Soon the two owls meet a brave teacher who teaches them to fly and helps them escape but dies doing it. Soren and Gylfie meet up with two more owls heading for the great tree, Twilight and Digger.
Can the four friends make it to the tree? Will the academy hunt them down? What will happen to the academy and the owlets? Read the Guardian's of Gahoole series by Kathryn Lasky to find out. I rate this series because of its suspense, adventure, and great messages.