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Posted January 19, 2012
In short: Twins Janine and Justin are stuck at their father's dinosaur-digging camp for the summer. While most kids would be thrilled, they've seen it all before. However, when Janine is called to find a mysterious egg for a mythological creature (the thunderbird), they're both drawn on a quest through the regular world and the spirit world in order to save the creature from dying.
When I read like a kid (I'm actually a grown up, despite what my daughter might say), I think differently than I do as an adult. Some kids' books you can read as an adult (like Harry Potter), but some kids' books you have to read like a kid (like Goosebumps). This book is a book you should really read as a kid, and that's a good thing. When twins Janine and Justin take off without their father knowing where they're going to follow a magical quest, my adult brain wanted to go, "No! Bad bad! Kids shouldn't take off without their parents!" but it's a book. So I turned off that part of my brain and just enjoyed the book for what it is, which is an adventure story. You know, a story in which people do stuff that they wouldn't normally do, which, you know, most kids can figure out that they shouldn't take off on magical quests without at least leaving their parents a note first.
One thing my adult brain really got into--Justin and Janine end up making part of their lengthy journey through the spirit world. As an adult, I've read a lot of stuff about traveling through various spirit worlds that just leaves me bored, but the adult side of me found the spirit world described here just as interesting as my kid brain did. I really enjoyed the fact that it changes depending on who your guide is? Loved it.
Fast action, not a lot of blah blah blah, good characters, interesting plot and locations: this book receives my kid-brain seal of approval.
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Overview
Native American twins Janine and Justin Prentiss protect a thunderbird hatchling from Unktehi, the demigod of chaos, while lost in Montana's Absaroka wilderness.Janine Prentiss is tired of spending her summers digging up dinosaur bones with her single-parent father, an eminent paleontologist. But neither does she want to spend her summer vacation listening to her shaman grandfather’s lame tales of spirit quests and totem creatures who talk.
Justin Prentiss thinks his twin sister is nuts. What kid in their right ...