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The Journey (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #2)

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It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythical place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom.

The journey is long and harrowing. When Soren and his friends finally arrive at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, they will be t...more

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Published September 1st 2003 by Scholastic

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Nov 29, 2012 Amara rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: own, 2012, reviewed

Yeah.... so, I had hoped that the second book in the series would start to bring up my opinion of the story, but it didn't. I have a lot of complaints with this one.

This is definitely written for the wrong audience.
As I said previously, I really think this book suffers for its audience. There's a paradox in the subject matter; on the one hand, Lasky wants to deal with themes such as Stockholm Syndrome, cannibalism, and child soldiers, but at the same time, she has to write these themes so they'r...more

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May 08, 2013 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, animal, survival, tween

Eh. I slogged through this one on audio. Think it would be better to read. Not my favorite series but not bad. Glad to get the gist of it for reader's advisory.

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Gr 4-8-In this second book in the series, Soren and his band of owls have escaped the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls and go in search of the mythical Great Ga'Hoole Tree. When they finally arrive at the tree, they find themselves in a Hogwarts-like school where owls are divided into "chaws," or smal...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Ahfie Rofi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Setelah bertemu Digger, Soren dan kawan-kawan terbang menuju pohon Ga’Hoole Agung di siang hari. Lalu mereka diserang gerombolan burung gagak. Akhirnya mereka berhasil lolos meski salah satu sayap Digger terluka. Mereka sampai di lubang pohon cemara besar dan di sana Mrs Plithiver merawat luka Digger.

Selesai beristirahat, mereka melanjutkan perjalanan melalui jalur Sungai Hoole. Tampak kepulan asap di tengah hutan yang membumbung ke atas. Mereka mendatanginya, dan setelah sampai di depan mulut g...more Setelah bertemu Digger, Soren dan kawan-kawan terbang menuju pohon Ga’Hoole Agung di siang hari. Lalu mereka diserang gerombolan burung gagak. Akhirnya mereka berhasil lolos meski salah satu sayap Digger terluka. Mereka sampai di lubang pohon cemara besar dan di sana Mrs Plithiver merawat luka Digger.

Selesai beristirahat, mereka melanjutkan perjalanan melalui jalur Sungai Hoole. Tampak kepulan asap di tengah hutan yang membumbung ke atas. Mereka mendatanginya, dan setelah sampai di depan mulut gua sebagai pusat kebakaran mereka melihat seekor kucing hutan. Dengan cepat mereka berusaha membunuh kucing itu. Penasaran melihat gua tadi, mereka pun memasukinya, dan menjumpai seekor burung hantu berbintik yang sekarat. Soren bertanya, “Apakah mereka menginginkan Cakar Perang? Apakah mereka dari St Aggie?” Tapi burung hantu berbintik itu menjawab, “Mereka lebih mengerikan dari St Aggie… Oh! Seandainya saja…”. Lalu burung itu pun mati.

Mereka pun melanjutkan perjalanan dan sampai di Danau Cermin. Tempat itu menyenangkan sehingga keempat burung hantu itu bermalas-malasan. Tapi berbeda dengan Mrs P yang cemas dengan keadaan ini sehingga ia mengajak mereka melanjutkan perjalanan meski menghadapi hujan dan angin salju. Lalu mereka sampai di Kerajaan Utara dan ini berarti telah melewati Pohon Ga’Hoole Agung yang berada sebelum Kerajaan Utara di tengah Laut Ga’Hoolemare. Mereka terbang berputar kembali dan sampai di Pohon Ga’Hoole Agung.

Di sana mereka mengalami kehidupan bersekolah di chaw masing-masing. Ketika Digger mencari korban anak burung hantu yang tersesat dalam tugas chaw-nya, dia melihat burung hantu yang mirip Soren. Ternyata itu memang adik Soren, Eglantine. Tapi Eglantine seperti tidak mengingat kakaknya. Hal itu lebih dari sekadar pembingungan di St Aggie. Namun setelah Madame Plonk menyanyikan lagu pengantar tidur akhirnya Eglantine pun tersadar. Dia hidup seperti biasa lagi. Mentari mulai muncul dan mereka tidur.

Membaca buku ini buat saya menarik sekali. Ceritanya juga dapat menginspirasi kehidupan saya. Burung hantunya unik-unik. Saya juga bisa mengambil banyak hikmah dalam cerita ini. Selain itu saya juga jadi tertarik dengan makhluk hidup yang bernama burung hantu :p(less)

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May 01, 2012 Steven R. McEvoy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-best-of, read-2011

This second book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole was just as good as the first. Continuing directly from the first, it is the story of our band of owls' journey from the Desert of Kuneer through the Beeks and on to the great Ga'Hoole tree on the island of Hoole. Once they arrive at the great tree, it is even more than the expected. All the legends or myths they had heard as young owls are true. The four friends live together in the same hollow but they are tapped(selected) to train for different sp...more

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Apr 08, 2012 Bree rated it 2 of 5 stars

I read the first Guardians of Ga’hoole series around the same time I began reading Erin Hunter’s Warriors series. The first book was enjoyable, and by the time I’d finished it, the film adaptation, Legend of the Guardians, had been released. The film is a condensation of the first three Guardians books, and I do really love it.

The series began as our main character, Soren, is brutally pushed from his next by his older brother. As Soren had yet to learn to fly, he is stranded. He ends up being ca...more

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Feb 15, 2011 Mr. Graham rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens, fantasy

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The Journey is really just an extension of the story of Soren, a young owl who grows into himself as a leader. In this, the second book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, the main character, Soren, learns many things about himself as he leads his “band” of four owls to the “Great GaHoole Tree.”
As in book one, the title of the book is slightly misleading. The title really only applies to the first seven of the 25 chapters. A better title might be The Training, for the majority of the book dea...more The Journey is really just an extension of the story of Soren, a young owl who grows into himself as a leader. In this, the second book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, the main character, Soren, learns many things about himself as he leads his “band” of four owls to the “Great GaHoole Tree.”
As in book one, the title of the book is slightly misleading. The title really only applies to the first seven of the 25 chapters. A better title might be The Training, for the majority of the book deals with the education and training the young owls receive to hopefully one day be Guardians. The plot, climax, and resolution are missing from this book even more than the first. The resolution is the rescue of Soren's sister, Eglantine. However, while Eglantines destiny weighed on the heart of Soren, it wasn't treated as the main thread of the plot throughout the story. The journey itself certainly includes some interesting events, there is very little action that really drives a reader.
In the first stage of their journey, they are immediately confronted by an owl who scoffs at their very purpose. “It does not do any good to believe in things you cannot see, touch, or feel. It is a waste of time.” She goes on to belittle them for being young and orphans. How easy it is sometimes to allow someone like this to give up on what we know is true. Mrs. Plithiver, the blind nest-maid snake, replies to these remarks, “I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still cannot see. But, of course, to see with two eyes is a very common thing...To see with the eyes is so ordinary.”
Chapter five tells us the part of the journey where they are relaxing and enjoying life at the Mirror Lakes. Once again our wise sage, Mrs. Plithiver, brings some wisdom. She realized that the Mirror lakes had transfixed them. “They had forgotten all they had fought for and fought against.” They also forgot their mission. How easy that is to do when life is comfortable.
When they reach the Great GaHoole Tree, the difference they see from St. Aggie's is striking. This is place of true learning where questions are encouraged and the library is open to all. Knowledge, experience, and individuality is valued highly. This is a place, also, where everyone is devoted to the good of Owlkind. The value of reading is affirmed in Soren and Gylphie. In chapter 13, as they “learned to read they began to get glimmerings of worlds unseen.” In chapter 15 Ruby is excited that this place of learning is giving her opportunities to do things her owl species would never do otherwise, which is a great benefit that real education gives.
Once again, there is great value in what I've learned about owls. However, as in the first book, this one cannot stand alone. I'm starting to think that books 1-3 were written as one book, but 700+ pages were too much for the target readers. I'm hoping that book 3 will have a great fight and resolve some of the lingering issues of Kludd, the flecks, and the Barred Owl's “you only wish.”
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Sep 23, 2010 Truly rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Kau akan terbang sampai ke Hoolemere.
Kau telah bertahan dari serangan burung gagak.
Kau telah terbang melintasi gurun. ....
Kau akan terbang menembus angin, menembus cahaya...
kau akan tetap terbang. Kau takkan gagal.
Kau pasti bisa menyelesaikan perjalanan ini.

Tujuan utama keempat sahabat Soren, Gylfie, Twilight dan Digger sudah jelas, mencari Pohon Ga'Hoole Agung Semuanya demi menciptakan keamanan dan ketentraman di dunia burung hantu. Ditemani oleh Mrs Plithiver, ular tua pelayan-sarang keluar...more

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Jun 07, 2013 Dolly rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: middle grade readers

Shelves: 2013, childrens, middle-grade, scifi-fantasy, library

This is the second book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky.

Our oldest decided to read this series after reading several of the books in the associated Wolves of the Beyond series. I didn't realize that there are fifteen books in this series until I started to post my review here. I suppose we'll have some reading to do for quite some time.

This is a dramatic tale and I'm a bit on the fence about the appropriateness of the themes compared to the target audience. There is a lot...more

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Aug 02, 2011 SKCircles rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

La suite des aventures de Soren, la jeune chouette effraie, et ses amis Gylfie, Spéléon et Perce-Neige, aventures qui sont synonymes, pour nos quatre petits héros, de nouvelles embûches, de nouvelles rencontres, de nouveaux enseignements. Kathryn Lasky confirme, dans ce deuxième tome, que c'est tout un univers qu'elle a su créer, riche, complexe, abouti. Car au Grand Arbre de Ga'Hoole, les hiboux et les chouettes sont presque aussi bien organisés que les jeunes sorciers de Poudlard !

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Apr 02, 2011 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

The journey of Soren and his band of friends continues in The Journey. (kinda fitting, don't you think?) But things just never seem to be going as well for Soren as he would like. His family is still missing, he knows his brother tried to kill him, he knows he will never see his sister again, and he gets stuck with a creepy instructor. Yea...the great Hoole empire is not quite what Soren was hoping for. Excitement! Adventure! Rescues! That is what this place is all about, isn't it? All the stori...more The journey of Soren and his band of friends continues in The Journey. (kinda fitting, don't you think?) But things just never seem to be going as well for Soren as he would like. His family is still missing, he knows his brother tried to kill him, he knows he will never see his sister again, and he gets stuck with a creepy instructor. Yea...the great Hoole empire is not quite what Soren was hoping for. Excitement! Adventure! Rescues! That is what this place is all about, isn't it? All the stories talk about the daring rescues, the heroic battles, and the innocence protected - not once did they mention studying and annoying female brown-nosing owls! Soren and his friends must learn what it takes to be a real hero before they can ever try to be one.

This is a great continuation of the Ga'Hoole story. I know I am WAY too old to be reading these books, but after I saw the movie, I just HAD to read them. And, as in almost any situation, the book(s) prove far superior to the movie - even if I still love the movie! The detail and depth these books can provide can never been shown on screen, unless this was done in a VERY long series.

The personalities of our favorite owls are becoming more and more pronounced the further into this we go. The Others are still the creepy figure I think we have all come to recognize, and this "other threat that is worse than St. Aggies" is becoming more sinister. OOHHH boy! Things are heating up, and it's not just because of the forest fires! We get to meet more owls this time through; however, none of these are in the book long enough (besides the teachers and Madam Plonk) for us to really get to know them greatly. I'm sure in the next few books, I will love them as much as I adore Gylfie.

I really like how the author did not feel the need to rush these books. As a younger YA series, authors tend to try to hurry things up for fear the children will lose interest. Because she did not do this, these books can be enjoyed by anyone. They are very quick, light and easy reads for the adults (albeit very enjoyable reads), and I intend to continue to read them all until I finish the series. I am hooked - I admit it! I'm secure enough in myself to fully announce to the world, I am a Ga'Hoole-aholic....and I will get my fix until there is no more. Now, the journey must continue....(less)

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Nov 16, 2012 Dena (Books for Kids) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens-books

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This is a really fun series. So far, I have been very impressed. It is original, unique, and completely different from anything else out there right now. I can see why it is a best selling series.

The Journey did not have as much action or bloodshed as book #1, The Capture, but it did not take away from the story at all. There was a lot of mystery and intrigue going on as the owls try to piece together bits of information.

They spend some time travelin...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Christy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: middle-grade, popular

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Sep 09, 2010 Frishawn Rasheed rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone

This installment was just as inthralling as the first. After having survived being blown far off course into the frigid North of the Puffins. Our heroes find their way to the blessed island and the Great Ga'Hoole Tree.
It is here that the adventure really begins, as each member of the 'band' is set apart in different chores that highlight the strengths of each and allow each of the five (for I count Mrs.P) to develop in his or her own right.
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May 19, 2013 Orinj rated it 4 of 5 stars

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this book talks about the journey soren and gylfie take and meet new friends. they meet up with this weird owl named digger. this owl was special. he was like the mechanic of the group. then they found a big buff owl named twilight.he love to sing songs about battle that didnt make any since and he was a tough guy. soren was the leader he could give excellent commands on how to push through weather.last but not least gylfie she was the navigator,she knew were to go and the rig...more

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Nov 14, 2010 Graziano rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: edmonton-library

‘In the twilight hour
We are home in our tree
We are owls, we are free’ (p. 139)

Guardians of Ga’Hoole’s second book tells about Soren and his band (Twilight, Digger, Gylfie and Mrs. Plithiver) when they finally arrive at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree.

At the Tree they meet other owls:
Boron and Barran, king and queen of Hoole;
Bubo, the blacksmith;
Madame Plonk, the singer;
Otulissa, the never ending talking owl, she is a bookworm;
and Ezylryb, (so far, my favourite character), he is a Whiskered Screech Owl...more

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May 09, 2013 Ashley rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey (Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 2) Summary: It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom. The journey is long and harrowing. When Soren and his friends finally arrive at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, they will be tested in ways they never dreamed of and face challenges they never i...more Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Journey (Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 2) Summary: It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom. The journey is long and harrowing. When Soren and his friends finally arrive at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, they will be tested in ways they never dreamed of and face challenges they never imagined. If they can learn from their leaders and from one another, they will soon become true Ga'Hoolian owls - honest and brave, wise and true.

MY OPINION

This books picks up with Soren and the gang still flying toward their destination - the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The gang are so excited to get there as quickly as possible that they risk flying during the day, and end up getting attacked by crows for their troubles. Digger gets injured and the gang are forced to stop for a rest. The gang quickly become famous among the owls in that area for fighting off the crows, and when they leave, they discover a shocking sight. A dying owl, who claims there is something out there even worse than those St. Aggie's brutes. Soon, the gang stop to rest at the Mirror Lakes, but something odd begins to happen and they won't to leave! Mrs. P, fed up with owl their hooting and carrying on about their beauty, snaps and the young owls leave the strange place. As they begin their flight across Hoolemere, the sea, the gang get pulled in by a wind, that carries them far past their destination and into the Ice Narrows, where they meet some rather... strange creatures known as puffins. But soon, they leave the puffins behind and finally make it to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where they find that one adventure has ended, but another one is beginning. As the gang begin to take classes and learn, they make many new friends at the tree. And soon, they are tapped for which chaw they will belong to - Navigation, Colliering, Tracking, Search-and-Rescue, Weather, or Ga'Hoolology. Soren is tapped for Colliering, and as such, must also take weather which is taught by bristly old Ezylryb. But as happy as the group are, they still cannot for get the 'something worse' than St. Aggie's and when the search-and-rescue chaw comes back with many young owlets, including a familiar face for Soren, and the owlets are all babbling about Tyto purity, and Tyto rulership, it makes them wonder exactly how awful this new evil is and what is it, exactly?

Quote: "I was so afraid I was going to say something like, 'Ezylryb, Matron would like to know if you'd like your tea with your usual fourth talon.'"(less)

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Aug 27, 2012 Sandra Pedicini rated it 2 of 5 stars

Liked the first book much better. The band of orphan owls find the Ga'Hoole tree for which they've been searching. It's a mysterious place, and there is a lot of work to be done - training. That part of the book that describes the owls' training, in chaws, seems to drag on and on. (The most amusing parts of life in the Ga'Hoole tree are the descriptions of the nest-maid snakes strumming harps and being used as tables by the owls.) Finally toward the end of the book comes some action, and a reaso...more

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Aug 07, 2011 Neill Smith rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Soren, a Barn Owl, and Gylfie, an Elf Owl, are two young owls who have escaped from a militaristic owl training camp, St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls, and joined with two other orphaned owls – Twilight, a Great Gray owl and Digger, a Burrowing Owl in a quest to find the legendary Ga’Hoolian owls. The Guardians of Ga’Hoole are an order of owls that perform noble deeds and Soren and his friends want to enlist their help in defeating the evil at St. Aggy’s. After finding the island of the gu...more

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Apr 11, 2011 Misty Morgan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-challenge

Back to the safety of independent readers lol. These books really are about 4th grade reading level, but the movie is coming out soon and I desperately want to read all of the 15 in the series. This one was easier to follow now that you are familiar with the characters and terms. A lot of good things happen in this one as well . . . not as much death . . . so yay! I found out that Lasky originally was compiling all the information on owls to write a nonfiction biological account of their lives a...more

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Oct 22, 2010 Shayla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Soren finally made it to Ga'Hoole! He has tried out many a chaw a is ready to recieve his rightfull place in the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. He is appointed to the Weather Chaw.
Twilight, the Great Gray Owl, find himself on the Search and Reascue Chaw. He is appointed a mission, along with the rest of his chaw, to rescue little TYto Owlets. They start chanting a strange old quote. He finds Eglantine.
Digger and Gylfie and Twiling bring little Eglantine to Ga'Hoole. Soren is horrified at his siter condit...more

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May 05, 2012 Richelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

My kids are really into owls right now, both fictional and real. We enjoyed this book together right after finishing the first Ga'Hoole book. The whole "band" of owl friends learn the history and culture at the Ga'Hoole tree and get to know their leaders, teachers and tree-mates. They find out what kinds of work details they are suited for and get trained in their specialty fields. Soren is reunited with his lost sister. I know there are 15 of these books, and they are good, but I think one or t...more

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Oct 09, 2009 Lars Guthrie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not quite as enthralling as the first in the series, but that's because Lasky has a lot of set-up work to do, once her band of young owls arrives at Ga'hoole. In other words, this looks like a series where you really do have to read sequentially. Certainly this volume would be confusing without having read the first, and now that I am on number three, 'The Rescue,' I am seeing that pattern repeated. And as a young reader more tolerant of exposition pointed out to me, there are quite a few import...more

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Jul 10, 2012 Melody rated it 4 of 5 stars

I don't know why I never read these books when they were "out". The stories are intriguing {though sometimes Lasky skips periods of time and leaves me in confusion for a few paragraphs}, and the characters so-very endearing! Lasky incorporates several breeds of owls and uses their attributes as part of the plot, which separates this series from other MG fantasy series. And her world-building...from the vocabulary to the everyday life of an owl...is absolutely brilliant.

Will I read the sequel/com...more

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Jan 30, 2011 Cun Leng rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Penasaran dengan keingin-tahuan tentang perjalanan Soren dan teman-temannya? Buku Kedua ini menggambarkan lebih banyak karakter dan tokoh, serta emosi dan ekspresi manusia yang lebih kompleks dalam karakter kisah burung hantu ini.
Bagaimana perjalanan mereka dalam mencari para pahlawan yang tinggal di Ga'Hoole ini? Meleset dari yang saya duga, ceritanya tidak sesederhana itu, bukan hanya sekedar kebaikan menang atas kejahatan. Tapi masih banyak hal lain, seperti kejahatan itu tidak hanya satu ......more

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Feb 27, 2013 Ryan Sanders rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Book Review: The Journey

One winter when I was ten I got the opportunity to go to Minnesota to visit my cousins and uncle. I was super stocked to finally visit my family and maybe get to go snowboarding. There was one thing I was not looking forward to; it was that I had to travel alone. Just like in the story I had a challenge to face to get to a place that I really wanted to go to. In the story Soren and his friends had to travel alone across their kingdom as young owls to get to...more Ryan Sanders

Book Review: The Journey

One winter when I was ten I got the opportunity to go to Minnesota to visit my cousins and uncle. I was super stocked to finally visit my family and maybe get to go snowboarding. There was one thing I was not looking forward to; it was that I had to travel alone. Just like in the story I had a challenge to face to get to a place that I really wanted to go to. In the story Soren and his friends had to travel alone across their kingdom as young owls to get to the GA’Hoole tree.

Just after escaping the St. Aggies grips Soren meets up with three new owls to start a new journey to the Great Ga’Hoole tree. The great Ga’hoole tree is a mythical headquarters of an order of owls that every night rises up and performs noble deeds to protect the owl kingdom. They fly through all different terrains all with their unique challenges. They travel together and all of them grow as individuals and as a team. And once they get there they are tested in many different ways. They learn from the leaders of the tree and are placed into different chaws or small teams of owls all with their own job.

Soren changes emensly through out the story in many different ways. One of the many ways is in his maturaty. He starts out as a young, and clueless owl and turns into a full grown, smart, brave, and strong owl. Another way is his leadership he was once a blind follower and is now a brave leader. He starts his journey to the great ga’hoole tree following the path of Twilight, but that all changes when he get to the tree. He is sperated from his leader and is forced to do things on his own and that leads to him leading his own chaw of collering.

This book is significant to our culture today for many reasons. It is about four young owlsthat go outside their comfort zone to do imcredible thing. This shows teen today that you don’t have to do the normal thing or do things because other people are doing them. You have to do what you want not what others want. The young owl had many time were they could have said its to hard or just given up but they persvirde through it and that is also a good lesson for teens today.
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Dec 22, 2012 Hikari rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Der zweite Band der Legende der Wächter schließt praktisch nahtlos an Band 1 an. Soren und seine neuen Freunde machen sich auf die Suche nach den Wächtern, die im Hoolemeer leben. Dabei erleben sie aber etliche Abenteuer und geraten auch auf falsche Wege, treffen neue Bekannte und finden mehr Geheimnisse. Der zweite Band ist genauso schön geschrieben wie der erste und viele neue Figuren treten auf, die nicht unterschiedlicher sein können, aber sehr passend gewählt sind. Der Stil der Autorin ist...more

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Jun 09, 2012 Angela Liao rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 9th-grade

The Journey is the second book of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series. Soren, Gylfie, Twilight and Digger are on their way to the Great Ga’Hoole Tree to get advice from other owls for getting rid of the evil forces. Many problems occurred on their journey to the Great Ga’Hoole Tree. There were many obstacles that stopped them on the journey such as harsh weather and Mirror Lakes.
I was very surprised when I found out that Soren has a long-lost sister. Her name is called “Eglantine”. At first she d...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Fun read. Love that the characters are owls, that read, have a community of all types of owls, go to school, etc. The story is a coming of age for Soren and his friends. They have all lost family and friends and have stuck together and helped each other survive until they found this fantastic community of owls. Soren learns a new skill to help support that community as do his friends. He also learns that he must work hard at that new skill in order to build confidence. And much more! This book i...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Marchel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiksi, terjemahan, remaja

Buku kedua dari Guardians of Ga'Hoole.

Cerita tentang 4 petualang muda...eh 4 petualang burung hantu muda ^_^, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, n Digger, berlanjut.

Cerita mengenai usaha mereka menemukan pulau tempat pohon Ga'Hoole berada, cerita mengenai kejadian-kejadian setelah mereka menemukan tempat itu.

Cerita ini benar-benar membuat gw "melambung" jauh, n sayang rasanya untuk berhenti membaca cerita ini (selesai pas jam 01.00 WIB ^_^) Serasa jadi burung hantu ^_^. Mimpi indah deh gw...

Ga serem, tapi...more

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Jul 10, 2012 Kathryn rated it 5 of 5 stars

As a 20 year old English major in college who normally likes to curl up with works from the likes of Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne or even Stephen King--I still love these books from when I first picked them up in middle school, and would certainly recommend them to a reader of any age. With the heartfelt, poignant, and clear manner that Lasky writes in, it isn't hard to appreciate the characters and the lessons on morality if you are either finding something for your child to read or if...more

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Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book, Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 15: The War of the Ember, was released on November 1, 2008. Guardians of Gahoo...more

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“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.” — 104 people liked it

“We are the owls of the weather chaw.
We take it blistering,
We take it all.
Roiling boiling gusts,
We're the owls with the guts.
For blizzards our gizzards
Dr tremble with joy.
An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail.
We fly forward and backward,
Upside down and flat.
Do we flinch? Do we wail?
Do we skitter or scutter?
No, we yarp one more pellet
And fly straight for the gutter!
Do we screech? Do we scream?
Do we gurgle? Take pause?
Not on your life!
For we are the best
Of the best of the chaws!” — 17 people liked it

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