Bryan Chick
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The Secret Zoo Complete Collection: The Secret Zoo, Secrets and Shadows, Riddles and Danger, Traps and Specters, Raids… (2014) 1 eksemplar
Wayfinders 1 eksemplar
The Secret Zoo 5-Book Collection: Books 1-5 1 eksemplar
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What a great introduction to fantasy adventure reading for kids age 8-12, grades 3-7. This is the first of six in The Secret Zoo Series. I purchased this first book for one of my grandies. If she enjoys it, then we'll see about getting the rest of the series.
Megan has gone missing, and has been missing now for three weeks. Megan and her older brother, Noah, live right next to the Clarksville City Zoo, with a fourteen foot tall brick wall between their house and the zoo. They have built a clubhouse 25 feet up into the tree so they are able to watch the zoo animals anytime they want.
For some reason, Megan begins to secretly visit the zoo, studying and taking notes on all the different animals in different parts of the zoo near closing time when she suddenly disappears.
Noah is visited in the middle of the night by a strange Kingfisher bird named Marlo who leaves a note for him to visit Mr. Tall Tail, the monkey at the zoo. From there he begins to receive bits and pieces of notes written by Megan on her special stationary from different zoo animals that send clues to his sister's last whereabouts. Noah is convinced that the zoo animals have something to do with Megan's disappearance. But he will need the help of their best friends, Ella and Ritchie.
They discover that inside the zoo are tunnels that lead to a whole new mystical secret zoo deep inside. There, people and animals all get along. There, they discover animals that were supposedly extinct but were alive and well. There, they are able to communicate with the animals. Megan could be anywhere inside this Secret Zoo, but their greatest fear is that she could have ended up inside the Dark Lands, which has been sealed closed with the vicious sasquatches, for over eighty years. Noah and his friends would enter the Dark Lands, risking their very own lives in hopes of finding Megan.
What kid wouldn’t love an adventure like this one? There was a fairly slow spell at the end of the book. The author was a little long-winded in explaining the history of the Secret Zoo and how it came about. But, if a kid can get past that and back onto the adventure, then good to go.… (mere)