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Overview

Featuring a new paperback cover to match hardcover of Kingdom Keepers II:

In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI--which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging--Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and scary. Soon Finn finds himself ...

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Overview

Featuring a new paperback cover to match hardcover of Kingdom Keepers II:

In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI--which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging--Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and scary. Soon Finn finds himself transported in his DHI form into the Magic Kingdom at night. Is it real? Is he dreaming?

Finn's confusion only increases when he encounters Wayne, an elderly Imagineer who tells him that the park is in grave danger. Led by the scheming witch, Maleficent, a mysterious group of characters called the Overtakers is plotting to destroy Disney's beloved realm, and maybe more.

This gripping high-tech tale will thrill every kid who has ever dreamed of sneaking into Walt Disney World after hours and wondered what happens at night, when the park is closed.

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In this fantastical novel, Disney's Magic Kingdom suddenly becomes a bit eerie. Finn Whitman and four other teens have been hired as Disney World guides, but with an odd twist: With cutting-edge technology, they have been transformed into hologram projections capable of leading guests around the park. What begins as an exciting theme park job turns into a virtual nightmare as Whit and his pals attempt to thwart an uprising by a menacing group of Disney villains.
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For anyone who has imagined what goes on in Walt Disney World after the gates close to the public, Pearson's (Peter and the Starcatchers) tale and Littman's authentic-sounding narration, in middle-schooler Finn Whitman's voice, offer a suspenseful all-access pass to the Magic Kingdom behind the scenes-filled with action, technology and a tricky (and implausible) riddle. Finn lands a cooler-than-cool opportunity after he becomes a model for a new breed of "holographic hosts" (Disney Host Interactive/Daylight Hologram Imaging) at Disney World. But the experience gets weirder than weird when Finn and the other four DHIs find themselves transported to the park via their nighttime dreams and must save the Magic Kingdom from Disney witches and villains called "Overtakers" by solving a puzzle said to be left behind by Walt himself. Littman reads at a smooth pace, speeding up along with the story's tension. He nails realistic kid-like reactions and dialogue even though listeners might find much of the plot hard to believe (and some of the plugs for Disney a bit over the top). Ages 10-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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This book is about a group of kids picked to be DHI's (Disney Host Interactives). Everything is normal until they start having weird dreams that aren't really dreams at all. I liked the book because it has an in-depth story line and imagination. It is written in a way that had me thinking that I was there, watching what was going on. I think people who are into fantasy with a little bit of sci-fi will enjoy this book. VOYA CODES: 4Q 3P M J S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses; Will appeal with pushing; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12). 2005, Hyperion, 325p., Ages 11 to 18.
—William Jeys, Teen Reviewer

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781423105459
  • Publisher: Disney Press
  • Publication date: 4/24/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 336
  • Age range: 10 - 12 Years
  • Series: Kingdom Keepers Series, #1

Meet the Author

Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson
Whether it's crime thrillers for adults or adventure stories for young readers, bestselling author Ridley Pearson brings imagination, suspense, and an impeccable eye for detail to all his award-winning fiction.

Biography

Crime may not always pay, but crime fiction always sells, and Ridley Pearson is one of the stars of the genre, the kind of writer whose royalties keep his family fed and cover a few extras as well (like, say, his own airplane). Yet Pearson didn't spend his youth dreaming of bestsellerdom. His first ambition was to be a musician, and he spent most of his twenties writing and performing folk-rock songs. The idea that he might become a novelist came later. As he explained in a Barnes and Noble interview, he was reading a Robert Ludlum novel when "a voice spoke up from inside me and said, 'I can do this.'" (Once he began writing and discovered firsthand the skill involved in crafting a cohesive thriller, he realized how much he had presumed!)

Pearson is renowned for fast-paced, thrill-a-minute suspense novels that include "a rare humanism and attention to detail" (Publishers Weekly). In a Greenwich Magazine interview he called his work "aerobic fiction, because I hope to get your heart pounding and get you turning pages." Entertainment Weekly dubbed him "the thinking person's Robert Ludlum."

As his fans know, Pearson works hard at nailing the details of forensic investigation and police procedure. In Undercurrents (the first novel in his Seattle-based Lou Boldt mystery series) his research was so thorough—he consulted an expert in oceanography—that the book helped convict an actual murderer. A Washington state prosecuting attorney happened to be reading it while working on a case similar to Pearson's fictional one: A woman's body had been found in a bay, and at first it appeared that she had committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. The oceanographer mentioned in Pearson's acknowledgments was called in as an expert witness to help prove that, based on tidal currents, the woman must have been dead before the time her husband claimed to have last seen her. Due largely to the expert testimony, the victim's husband was convicted of second-degree murder.

Of course, there's more to a Pearson novel than research. "Just what is it about Ridley Pearson that makes him the best damn thriller writer on the planet?" mused Bill Ott in BookList. "We've celebrated the forensic detail, the taut plotting, the multidimensional characters, and the screw-tightening suspense, but lots of fiction writers do all that. Here's a theory: Pearson is a master at manipulating opposites. His stories are forever jumping from high concept to small scale, from positive to negative charges, manipulating our emotions and minds with their polar hip-hopping."

When he's not writing, Pearson still makes music—he's the bass guitarist for the Rock Bottom Remainders, an amateur rock band made up of professional writers including Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, and Mitch Albom (the group's motto, coined by Barry: "We play music as well as Metallica writes novels").

It was while Pearson was in Miami to play with the Rock Bottom Remainders that he told Barry about his idea (actually, daughter Paige's idea) for a prequel to Peter Pan. The two authors had such a good time hashing out possibilities over breakfast that Pearson asked Barry to write the book with him. Published in 2004, their clever collaboration Peter and the Starcatchers became a huge bestseller, spawning two sequels (Peter and the Shadow Thieves in 2006 and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon in 2007) and a series of spin-off children's chapter books.

Even though Pearson thoroughly enjoys crafting juvenile fiction, his adult fans need not worry that he's abandoned his high-voltage crime novels. Indeed, he has said that writing gives him the same "adrenaline rush," no matter which audience he is targeting: Readers of all ages appreciate the imagination, suspense, and an impeccable eye for detail he brings to all his fiction.

Good To Know

Pearson calls himself a workaholic, "not so much by desire as out of necessity," since he reserves a lot of time for his two young daughters. His hobbies, which he now defines as "something you once did and no longer have the time for," include recreational tree climbing, fly-fishing, backyard volleyball, snow boarding—and, of course, bass guitar in his rock band. An avid reviser, Pearson says, "I'm said to have a nervous, worrying disposition, but rarely feel I live up to that description—perhaps internal calm is expressed as external nervosa."

Pearson loves to travel, especially to southern France, with wife Marcelle and second child Storey, who is adopted from China. We're certain to do a good deal of international travel in the years to come. He also attends local symphony and theater. But his "favorite avocation is to spend an evening around our dining table with two or three other couples. This, I feel, is where many of the world's ills are solved, and many souls restored. Mine, especially."

    1. Also Known As:
      Wendell McCall; Joyce Reardon
    2. Hometown:
      St. Louis, Missouri
    1. Date of Birth:
      March 13, 1953
    2. Place of Birth:
      Glen Cove, New York
    1. Education:
      Kansas University, B.A., Brown University
    2. Website:
      http://www.ridleypearson.com/
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  • Posted August 18, 2011

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    Very good

    That was great. I enjoyed every minute reading this.

    11 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 20, 2009

    A Fantastic book

    I read this book last summer and absolutely loved it. I found it very creative and interesting and also funny. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy and adventure

    6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 4, 2008

    What an Adventure!

    Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark has to be one of the most interesting, addicting, funny and original books I have ever read. It takes place all around the Disney Orlando Resort. The book tells about the journey of 5 teens who were chosen to be the first DHI¿s, Disney Host Interactive, but suddenly the new technology backfires and, when they went to bed, the kids find themselves in Magic Kingdom at night. The only way out of the park wasn¿t to wake up, but to push a special remote that had one single red button. How weird is that? Now Finn, Charlene, Willa, Philby and Maybec have to figure out what is going on with the DHI system and put a stop to it, that is with the help of Wayne, one of Disney¿s first Imagineers who had the remote, and try to stop the over-takers from destroying the park and the outside world. The only clues they have to stopping this chaos are found scattered all around the park. After looking in at attractions in Magic Kingdom in ¿ A new perspective¿ the teens finally glue the pieces together to solve the mystery. They find the original plans to Magic Kingdom and Walt Disney¿s own personal pens to revel what his original plans were for the park. As they dropped a single drop of ink from the pen onto the plans everything in the park light up and fire works burst out into the sky at night. Then Wayne pushed the red button one more time.

    6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 2, 2010

    This book need's help.

    Title. I really hated this book.

    The characters; no. They say their young teens, they are acting like 8 year olds. They think female's are another type of person. And why the heck does this Finn person decide to take a random new girl he saw to the magic kingdom and ask for her help? Plus, the names, I do not like at all. A person from a book meeting decided not to come because she was annoyed of the stereotype in this book. Aunt Jelly??? If Disney think's their trying to connect to us kids, then they're forgetting the Asian grandma who runs a tea shop along with a grandson who does karate, and the dumb hot blond (I suspect Charlete was supposed to be that, but they said she was drop dead gorgeous, but just look at the cover and prove them wrong).

    The story could have had a lot of potential, but it did not make it at all. Having a random twin sister at the end was just ridiculous. They tried to make Wayne a Yoda or a Dumbeldore, but he seemed like an old man who wouldn't explain anything.

    For somebody who actually reads a lot, this book is horrible. For people who barely read, this is an okay book. I had no choice but to finish this book, but I'm never reading the second book. Disney, you can take over TV, animated movies, and a bit of video games, but the two things you will never take over, is books and Google.

    4 out of 19 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 28, 2010

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    Fantastic Read for Disney Fans of All Ages

    Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark is full of everything that is Disney - the rides, the atmosphere, the adventure, the imagination, and the magic. The first book in the ongoing series introduces readers to the Kingdom Keepers, five ordinary kids in Orlando, each with a talent to add to their team. The book follows Finn and the others around likely the most famous of any Disney parks, the Magic Kingdom. They face pirates, dinosaurs, witches, parents, school, and much more in their adventure to stop what the Disney Imagineers call the Overtakers.

    There's never a dull moment with this book. It is guaranteed to keep you reading all day and night as it takes you on one of the wildest rides through Disney imaginable.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2008

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    Great for any Disney Fan!!

    Ridley Pearson has written a fantastic book about what happens at Disney after the park closes. This is a fantastic book to read for fun or whenever you need a moment to get away from the stress of life. Disney fans will especially love this book as Pearson takes you from place to place inside the Magic Kingdom.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2011

    Speechless

    If you're a disney lover like me you'll love this book! After reading the whole series it left me speechless and got me thinking more deeply about disney!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 17, 2011

    book of a thousand centuries

    This book is great. You will get sucked into it like it is a black hole. It should get all the awards posible to get.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 2, 2011

    You know...

    This is almost the same thing as kimgdom heart!KYA~!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Kingdom Hearts! Go Kingdom Keepers!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 2, 2008

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    Reviewed by Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius" for TeensReadToo.com

    Five young teens living in Florida get the opportunity of a lifetime--they're each going to be turned into a DHI, or a Disney Host Interactive, to guide visitors throughout the park. The five teens--Finn, Charlene, Willa, Philby, and Maybeck--are a varied assortment of ethnicities, and all attend different schools. As Maybeck states, they're "the Orlando assortment pack." When Philby points out that DHI also stands for Daylight Hologram Imaging, the kids get a little worried that maybe the people at Disney aren't telling them everything there is to know. And that turns out to be quite an understatement.

    One night when Finn falls asleep, he finds himself in the park after closing-- in his DHI, or hologram, body. He meets an old man named Wayne, one of the original Disney Imagineers, who informs Finn that he and his other four DHI friends have been chosen for a mission. A mission to save the park from the Overtakers, a group of once-benign Park characters who have taken on power and are intent on spreading their power outside of the borders of Disney World.

    What at first seems like a fantastical dream soon turns to reality, when the attractions at the Park begin coming to life when the DHIs cross over into the Magic Kingdom while sleeping. They're attacked by animatronic pirates from The Pirates of the Caribbean, the dolls from It's a Small World try to capsize their boat, a dinosaur fossil from the Thunder Mountain ride comes to life and starts chasing them. And then there's Maleficent, the witch from Sleeping Beauty, who appears to be all too real--and determined to stop the kids from solving The Stonecutter's Quill, the fable that Walt Disney passed along to save the Park from the Overtakers.

    THE KINGDOM KEEPERS is definitely an imaginative read, full of action, adventure, and suspense. For anyone who has ever visited the Magic Kingdom, you'll recognize the settings immediately. Even if you're not a frequent visitor of Disney World, this is one book that will bring the magic--both good and bad--to very realistic life.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2012

    Page turner

    Recommend it. My favorit book ever

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 8, 2012

    Best book ever!!!

    This book is very intresting if u like adventures and mystery!!!!! It keeps u thinking in wats going to happen next!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2012

    Annouymounus

    Havent read it im excited it looks good bi:)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2012

    best book ever

    awesome

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2012

    Get it from a library please / BANANA'S ROC:) D Get it from a library please

    Hi now it's a great book, but don't get on u'r nook. This series is a 'lend me' series.
    The Bananna;)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2012

    Simply Amazing

    This is my favorite book yet. His book needs to be a movie!A+++++++

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2012

    AMAZING!!!!

    I read this book when i was in Disney for a vacation and i was scared out of my socks( but in a good way!)!!!!!!! I LIVE IT SO MUCH

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2012

    Hate it

    It wont let you read it AT ALL DONT SPEND MONEY ON HORRIBLE NON WORKING BOOK :(

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2012

    Cool

    This is the best book i ever read it made me feel like i was accully there with the group

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2012

    This book is awesome! Love it! Totally sucks

    I lve this book it is so awesome ill definetly read it again

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