Teaser: Bobby Pendragon has a perfectly normal life until his Uncle Press informs him that he is a Traveler and he must save the world.
Plot Summary: While preparing to play in an important basketball game Bobby Pendragon has his first kiss with a girl, but his Uncle Press comes and ruins everything. Bobby is told that he is a Traveler and must save the world. He is no hero, Bobby only wants to go to his basketball game and live his normal life, but Uncle Press has other plans and Bobby is taken to an alternate dimension known as Denduron. The only way for Bobby to go back to his normal life is to accept that he is a Traveler and begin to save the world. The only way for Bobby to stay sane is to keep a journal that he sends to his best friend Mark. With this journal Mark knows that Bobby is still alive. The rest of the book revolves around Bobby learning more about being a Traveler and realizing his destiny is to save the world.
Critical Evaluation: MacHale introduces the reader to a completely new world as seen through Bobby Pendragon's eyes. He is just living a normal live, playing on the basketball team, along with having just kissed his first girl, and then he is thrown a loop and told that he is a Traveler and must save the world! That is almost more than Bobby can take. MacHale makes Bobby a believable character by showing his vulnerability. I love that Bobby acts just like a teenage boy would. He uses popular language that expresses what Bobby is feeling. Bobby is not always confident that he can save the world, but with the help of his friends he knows that he is capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Author Information: According to http://djmachalebooks.com/the-author/ D.J. MacHale was raised in Greenwich, CT. He attended NYU and earned a BFA in film production. He has written and produced many television shows such as Are you Afraid of the Dark? and Flight 29 Down,which earned him the Writers Guild of America award for “Outstanding Children’s Script. He has written several books and is famous for the 10 book Pendragon series. D.J. now lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter.
Genre: Fantasy
Curriculum Ties: N/A
Booktalking Ideas: Would you be able to keep a secret as big as Bobby's a secret? How long before you would tell your closest friends or your parents why you were gone? How would you explain it so they would believe you?
Reading Level/Interest Age: 13+
Challenge Issues: Magical Themes. If the book was challenged I would go to, ALA's Strategies and Tips for Dealing with Challenges to Library Materials.
Plot Summary: While preparing to play in an important basketball game Bobby Pendragon has his first kiss with a girl, but his Uncle Press comes and ruins everything. Bobby is told that he is a Traveler and must save the world. He is no hero, Bobby only wants to go to his basketball game and live his normal life, but Uncle Press has other plans and Bobby is taken to an alternate dimension known as Denduron. The only way for Bobby to go back to his normal life is to accept that he is a Traveler and begin to save the world. The only way for Bobby to stay sane is to keep a journal that he sends to his best friend Mark. With this journal Mark knows that Bobby is still alive. The rest of the book revolves around Bobby learning more about being a Traveler and realizing his destiny is to save the world.
Critical Evaluation: MacHale introduces the reader to a completely new world as seen through Bobby Pendragon's eyes. He is just living a normal live, playing on the basketball team, along with having just kissed his first girl, and then he is thrown a loop and told that he is a Traveler and must save the world! That is almost more than Bobby can take. MacHale makes Bobby a believable character by showing his vulnerability. I love that Bobby acts just like a teenage boy would. He uses popular language that expresses what Bobby is feeling. Bobby is not always confident that he can save the world, but with the help of his friends he knows that he is capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Author Information: According to http://djmachalebooks.com/the-author/ D.J. MacHale was raised in Greenwich, CT. He attended NYU and earned a BFA in film production. He has written and produced many television shows such as Are you Afraid of the Dark? and Flight 29 Down,which earned him the Writers Guild of America award for “Outstanding Children’s Script. He has written several books and is famous for the 10 book Pendragon series. D.J. now lives in Southern California with his wife and daughter.
Genre: Fantasy
Curriculum Ties: N/A
Booktalking Ideas: Would you be able to keep a secret as big as Bobby's a secret? How long before you would tell your closest friends or your parents why you were gone? How would you explain it so they would believe you?
Reading Level/Interest Age: 13+
Challenge Issues: Magical Themes. If the book was challenged I would go to, ALA's Strategies and Tips for Dealing with Challenges to Library Materials.
Why included? My sister recommended I read this book because she knew I liked the Harry Potter series a lot and this series is similar.
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