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The Ever Breath
Follow the secret passageway . . . and discover the magic!In a world where locust fairies flutter and firebreathers burst from snowbanks, two children are having the adventure of their lives. Truman and his twin sister, Camille, have just met their grandmother . . . and she’s a little strange. She whispers a tale about something called the Ever Breath, an amber orb that maintains the balance between our world and a dreamy one of imagination—and evil.Soon Truman and Camille find themselves in the Breath World, a magical place where ogres clash and a mouse holds the key to a mystery. Some creatures want to help them—and some want them D-E-A-D. That’s because the Ever Breath has been stolen, and an epic battle is raging to bring it safely back. Can the twins save not only one world—but two?
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First published January 1, 2009
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Julianna Baggott
41 books1,476 followersCritically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published more than twenty books under her own name as well as pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. Her recent novel, Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2015). Her novel Pure, the first of a trilogy, was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2012) and won an ALA Alex Award. Her work has been optioned by Fox2000, Nickelodeon/Paramount, and Anonymous Content and she currently has work in development at Netflix with Shawn Levy attached to direct, Paramount with Jessica Biel attached, Disney+, Lionsgate, and Warner Brothers, to name a few. For more on her film and TV work, click here. There are over one hundred foreign editions of Julianna’s novels published or forthcoming overseas. Baggott’s work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Modern Love column, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, Glamour, Real Simple, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best American Poetry, and has been read on NPR’s Here and Now, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered. Her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized.
Baggott began publishing short stories when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, the national bestseller Girl Talk. It was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller, The Miss America Family, and then The Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews); it has been optioned by Anonymous Content, and currently by BCDF, with a screenplay penned by playwright Keith Bunin.
Her Bridget Asher novels, published by Bantam Dell at Random House, include All of Us and Everything, listed in “Best New Books” in People magazine (2015), The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, The Pretend Wife, and My Husband’s Sweethearts.
Although the bulk of her work is for adults, she has published award-winning novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as her own name. Her seven novels for younger readers include, most notably, The Anybodies trilogy, which was a People Magazine summer reading pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl’s Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and was in development at Nickelodeon/Paramount. Other titles include The Slippery Map, The Ever Breath, and the prequel to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on XM Sirius Radio. Julianna’s Boston Red Sox novel The Prince of Fenway Park (HarperCollins) was on the Sunshine State Young Readers Awards List and The Massachusetts Children’s Book Award for 2011-2012.
Baggott also has an acclaimed career as a poet, having published four collections of poetry – Instructions: Abject & Fuming, This Country of Mothers, Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, and Lizzie Borden in Love. Her poems have appeared in some of the most venerable literary publications in the country, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry (2001, 2011, and 2012).
She is an associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts where she teaches screenwriting. From 2013-2017, she held the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross. In 2006, Baggott and her husband, David Scott, co-founded the nonprofit organization Kids in Need – Books in Deed which focuses on literacy and getting free books into the hands of underprivileged children in the state of Florida. David Scott is also her creative and business partner. They have four children. Her oldest daughte
Baggott began publishing short stories when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, the national bestseller Girl Talk. It was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller, The Miss America Family, and then The Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reviews); it has been optioned by Anonymous Content, and currently by BCDF, with a screenplay penned by playwright Keith Bunin.
Her Bridget Asher novels, published by Bantam Dell at Random House, include All of Us and Everything, listed in “Best New Books” in People magazine (2015), The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, The Pretend Wife, and My Husband’s Sweethearts.
Although the bulk of her work is for adults, she has published award-winning novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode as well as her own name. Her seven novels for younger readers include, most notably, The Anybodies trilogy, which was a People Magazine summer reading pick alongside David Sedaris and Bill Clinton, a Washington Post Book of the Week, a Girl’s Life Top Ten, a Booksense selection, and was in development at Nickelodeon/Paramount. Other titles include The Slippery Map, The Ever Breath, and the prequel to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman. For two years, Bode was a recurring personality on XM Sirius Radio. Julianna’s Boston Red Sox novel The Prince of Fenway Park (HarperCollins) was on the Sunshine State Young Readers Awards List and The Massachusetts Children’s Book Award for 2011-2012.
Baggott also has an acclaimed career as a poet, having published four collections of poetry – Instructions: Abject & Fuming, This Country of Mothers, Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, and Lizzie Borden in Love. Her poems have appeared in some of the most venerable literary publications in the country, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry (2001, 2011, and 2012).
She is an associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts where she teaches screenwriting. From 2013-2017, she held the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross. In 2006, Baggott and her husband, David Scott, co-founded the nonprofit organization Kids in Need – Books in Deed which focuses on literacy and getting free books into the hands of underprivileged children in the state of Florida. David Scott is also her creative and business partner. They have four children. Her oldest daughte
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January 19, 2010
Twins Truman and Camille have been deserted by their father. Now their mother is leaving them for three weeks with their paternal grandmother Swelda, whom they’ve never met and only know from her disappointing gifts of soap and ChapStick. Things look up when Swelda turns out to be weird but cool. When she tells the twins an entrancing tale of the Ever Breath, a mystical force inside an amber globe that protects our world and the Breath World, a world of fantasy and dreams from which our Fixed World was divided long ago, the twins are ready to settle in. But not one night passes before Truman finds himself following a talking animal down a passageway into the Breath World, where things are going terribly wrong. Armed only with the strange snow globe Swelda gave him, he sets off with his new companion into a world of mythical beasts - and nascent fascism. Swelda tells Camille the rest of the story – the Ever Breath has been stolen, and without it, the passageway between the worlds will collapse: our world will have no more imagination or dreams, the Breath World will be consumed by evil, and both worlds will die. The twins’ missing father went into the Breath World to restore the Ever Breath, but he has disappeared – and now Camille must take her own snow globe and follow Truman to save both worlds. And time is running out.
Julianna Baggott’s writing is highly evocative and excellent in both dialogue and narrative, and the pace moves quickly. The twins and the mythical creatures that they meet are well-drawn. Some characters and plot elements may seem familiar: wise, strange old women and a missing father from A Wrinkle in Time (or from Baggott’s own Prince of Fenway Park, for that matter); a fierce mouse from the Narnia books; a maleficent governmental office in a magical world from the Harry Potter books. But Baggott puts her own twist on things, many of her creatures are highly original, and her story is all her own.
Baggott has aroused controversy in the past: The Prince of Fenway Park, which dealt with the racist history of the Red Sox, put the N-word in the mouths of players of yore and angered both those who thought it politically incorrect and those who didn’t like seeing old dirt dug up. It will be interesting to see if right-wing Christian groups object to The Ever Breath, or to the Ever Breath itself: A Being Than Which Nothing Greater Can Be Conceived, holy, involved in the creation of the world, yet manipulable by living creatures and, ultimately, perishable. Oh, and it’s guarded by what you might call witches.
Julianna Baggott’s writing is highly evocative and excellent in both dialogue and narrative, and the pace moves quickly. The twins and the mythical creatures that they meet are well-drawn. Some characters and plot elements may seem familiar: wise, strange old women and a missing father from A Wrinkle in Time (or from Baggott’s own Prince of Fenway Park, for that matter); a fierce mouse from the Narnia books; a maleficent governmental office in a magical world from the Harry Potter books. But Baggott puts her own twist on things, many of her creatures are highly original, and her story is all her own.
Baggott has aroused controversy in the past: The Prince of Fenway Park, which dealt with the racist history of the Red Sox, put the N-word in the mouths of players of yore and angered both those who thought it politically incorrect and those who didn’t like seeing old dirt dug up. It will be interesting to see if right-wing Christian groups object to The Ever Breath, or to the Ever Breath itself: A Being Than Which Nothing Greater Can Be Conceived, holy, involved in the creation of the world, yet manipulable by living creatures and, ultimately, perishable. Oh, and it’s guarded by what you might call witches.
April 6, 2020
Cute book for younger kids. I got it from library book store and will keep it for my nephew when he's old enough and are interested in reading it.
January 31, 2025
great writing! no longer my style, though.
December 10, 2015
"There is no going backward. Only forward" p 19. "Love can make you do things you never thought you'd do" p 180. Some phrases seem common sense, others not. "Who had buttons on their pajamas anymore?" p 44. Anyone and everyone?
Truman Cragmeal has many medical problems - "allergic to a lot of things" p 3, "thick lenses" p 4 on glasses, asthma, hives - "complete opposites" p 5 to twin Camille. Their dad vanishes; next month kids sent to deteriorating family house on golf course.
Tunnel in Gran Swelda's basement to her twin Ickbee's hut in Breath World reverses their health. "She picked up the glasses" p 102 Truman left, can see, starts sneezing from mewlers, cats with hands.
Snow globes can show past or present, mostly warn of future danger. Friends 'Jarkmen' are identified by hand-knit "blue woolen hat" p 74. Praddle warms Truman's head like live mewler fur hat.
Too much is obvious, predictable. Basement tunnel leads to magic world. Truman will be hero, find dad and stay where healthy. Bog-girl mermaid is friendly; elder asking for arm support is not.
Some surprises. Mouse Binderbee Bigby, "head of my class" p 179 writing expert, hides in shirt "breast pocket .. have a view" p 170 of ogre Ottwell riding fire-breather Chickie, too plump to fly. Retired long ago, "All of your swordsman medals have tarnished .."
His wife was still berating him. "Mark my words, you'll get yourself killed and then you'll have me to answer to! I'll say 'I told you so! I told you so!' for the rest of your miserable life!" p 169.
Truman Cragmeal has many medical problems - "allergic to a lot of things" p 3, "thick lenses" p 4 on glasses, asthma, hives - "complete opposites" p 5 to twin Camille. Their dad vanishes; next month kids sent to deteriorating family house on golf course.
Tunnel in Gran Swelda's basement to her twin Ickbee's hut in Breath World reverses their health. "She picked up the glasses" p 102 Truman left, can see, starts sneezing from mewlers, cats with hands.
Snow globes can show past or present, mostly warn of future danger. Friends 'Jarkmen' are identified by hand-knit "blue woolen hat" p 74. Praddle warms Truman's head like live mewler fur hat.
Too much is obvious, predictable. Basement tunnel leads to magic world. Truman will be hero, find dad and stay where healthy. Bog-girl mermaid is friendly; elder asking for arm support is not.
Some surprises. Mouse Binderbee Bigby, "head of my class" p 179 writing expert, hides in shirt "breast pocket .. have a view" p 170 of ogre Ottwell riding fire-breather Chickie, too plump to fly. Retired long ago, "All of your swordsman medals have tarnished .."
His wife was still berating him. "Mark my words, you'll get yourself killed and then you'll have me to answer to! I'll say 'I told you so! I told you so!' for the rest of your miserable life!" p 169.
January 8, 2010
Long, long ago, the world was inhabited by all sorts of folks and creatures, magical and mundane, before it was split into two worlds. Our world is the Fixed World, a place of no magic but whose creativity and imagination derive from our proximity with the Breath World, where all the magical creatures live. The worlds are connected by the Ever Breath, which resides in a passageway and has been guarded since time immemorial by a special family with ties to both worlds.
Twins Truman and Camille learn that they are members of this family when the Ever Breath is stolen and things on both sides of the passageway begin to fall apart. And if the passageway is severed completely, both worlds will begin to die. Truman and Camille journey to Breath World, where they must help a desperate group of revolutionaries find the Ever Breath before it's too late.
Anyone who has traveled in a very foreign land will appreciate Truman's disorientation as he puzzles over the strange food, customs, politics, and history of Breath World, details that are fluently relayed in a way that made me believe in this complex society and want to know more about its people. Mewlers, locust fairies, talking mice, people with horns - Breath World teems with unusual folks who get along with one another or don't. And all is not well by any means, as the Office of Official Affairs uses fear and intimidation to rule its people. Its slogan - "Us versus Them! The difference is simple!"
The first part of the book, before the twins get to Breath World, is a bit too long, and the last part is a whirlwind, too-quick effort to get the Ever Breath back, revealing a master villain who is a bit of a disappointment. In-between, however, the story is fascinating - and there is bound to be a sequel exploring more of the magical Breath World.
Recommended for fantasy fans who enjoy tales of magical worlds connected to ours, such as the Chronicles of Narnia.
Twins Truman and Camille learn that they are members of this family when the Ever Breath is stolen and things on both sides of the passageway begin to fall apart. And if the passageway is severed completely, both worlds will begin to die. Truman and Camille journey to Breath World, where they must help a desperate group of revolutionaries find the Ever Breath before it's too late.
Anyone who has traveled in a very foreign land will appreciate Truman's disorientation as he puzzles over the strange food, customs, politics, and history of Breath World, details that are fluently relayed in a way that made me believe in this complex society and want to know more about its people. Mewlers, locust fairies, talking mice, people with horns - Breath World teems with unusual folks who get along with one another or don't. And all is not well by any means, as the Office of Official Affairs uses fear and intimidation to rule its people. Its slogan - "Us versus Them! The difference is simple!"
The first part of the book, before the twins get to Breath World, is a bit too long, and the last part is a whirlwind, too-quick effort to get the Ever Breath back, revealing a master villain who is a bit of a disappointment. In-between, however, the story is fascinating - and there is bound to be a sequel exploring more of the magical Breath World.
Recommended for fantasy fans who enjoy tales of magical worlds connected to ours, such as the Chronicles of Narnia.
November 30, 2018
The Ever Breath is a novel that gets you wondering about other world's. Truman is a teenage boy is truly allergic to almost everything. Camille isn't like her brother she reads books about traumatic and scary historic events to prepare for. This is where the twins of total opposites come to visit their grandma and end up finding out about her and their dad's secret roots. Their grandma decides to past down her twin and her ambers orb which is the key to help the magical world. Truman accidentally discovers the evil behind the gentle world. He now is trying to help the real and the magical world stay from colliding with each other and change how the creatures are living.
He can't do it by himself so from the help of his grandma, she's trying to prepare Camille to help her brother. Evil authorities such as locust fairies and fire breathers try and stop them but family is by their side. Help from all kinds of friends from short and hairy to giant and smooth to mysterious and beautiful. The dream team faces many obstacles but makes it by just a little. After the family goes through and save their dad from being a little boy forever and help the creatures live happily again. Grandma decides that each twin should stay in a world and Truman stays in the magical world where he's allergic to nothing and becomes honored while Camille stays in the real world because that's what she can handle. The novel is magical, wonderful, and majestic. It keeps me wanting to read each time, this book is amazing that's why my rating is so high. You guys should really check it out.
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December 28, 2009
THE EVER BREATH surprisingly and happily brought me back to memories of days when I devoured books by Eva Ibbotson, Roald Dahl, and the like. Young readers about to move past too-easy chapter books will eagerly swallow up this old-fashioned kid-versus-evil adventure tale.
Truman, Camille, and almost all of the characters are remarkably well developed. Truman, with his countless allergies and medical problems, manages to find his place in the Breath World, while his tough-exterior sister learns that she can be vulnerable and still be okay. They read like they could be your friends, or your classmates.
The world-building is fantastic, drawing us in quickly yet beautifully, with interesting but not overwhelming descriptions and happily paced narration. It is clear from her prose that Baggott knows how to write for late-elementary school kids. However, the ending seemed disproportionately swift and too easily wrapped up compared to the amount of detail and attention paid to introducing the characters, setting, and conflict.
In spite of that, THE EVER BREATH is still a worthwhile book to steer kids toward. It brings back all the magic of juvenile fantasy that I often reminisce about. I have a feeling that Baggott’s books will go alongside Eva Ibbotson’s as great reads for 8- to 12-year-olds.
Truman, Camille, and almost all of the characters are remarkably well developed. Truman, with his countless allergies and medical problems, manages to find his place in the Breath World, while his tough-exterior sister learns that she can be vulnerable and still be okay. They read like they could be your friends, or your classmates.
The world-building is fantastic, drawing us in quickly yet beautifully, with interesting but not overwhelming descriptions and happily paced narration. It is clear from her prose that Baggott knows how to write for late-elementary school kids. However, the ending seemed disproportionately swift and too easily wrapped up compared to the amount of detail and attention paid to introducing the characters, setting, and conflict.
In spite of that, THE EVER BREATH is still a worthwhile book to steer kids toward. It brings back all the magic of juvenile fantasy that I often reminisce about. I have a feeling that Baggott’s books will go alongside Eva Ibbotson’s as great reads for 8- to 12-year-olds.
June 6, 2010
Ever Breath is a short, whimsical fantasy. Within the first few pages I was captivated and quickly drawn into the magical world of Ever World. After the mysterious disappearance of their father, twins, Truman and Camille Cragmeal, end up staying with their Grandmother Swelda who lives on Swallow Road in a house in the middle of a golf course!
From Swelda, Truman and Camille learn the truth about their family. The world we live in is the Fixed World, and then there is the magical world of the Ever World where our dreams, our imaginations come from. The passage between the two worlds is controlled by the Ever Breath which balances the flow between two worlds. However, the Ever Breath has been stolen which will cut off imaginations and dreams in the Fixed World and eventually kill both worlds. Therefore the Cragmeal twins take on a journey in search of the stolen Ever Breath and their father in the Breath World.
I loved the first half of the book but towards the end it felt rushed. Even though there is a sequel, I still want the book, especially the first one, to fully stand alone. So a slight disappointment towards the end, but overall it is a fun and light fantasy, perfect for beginning fantasy readers.
From Swelda, Truman and Camille learn the truth about their family. The world we live in is the Fixed World, and then there is the magical world of the Ever World where our dreams, our imaginations come from. The passage between the two worlds is controlled by the Ever Breath which balances the flow between two worlds. However, the Ever Breath has been stolen which will cut off imaginations and dreams in the Fixed World and eventually kill both worlds. Therefore the Cragmeal twins take on a journey in search of the stolen Ever Breath and their father in the Breath World.
I loved the first half of the book but towards the end it felt rushed. Even though there is a sequel, I still want the book, especially the first one, to fully stand alone. So a slight disappointment towards the end, but overall it is a fun and light fantasy, perfect for beginning fantasy readers.
November 28, 2016
Truman and his twin sister, Camille are brought to their grandmother’s house to stay for a while by their mother while their father is away under mysterious circumstances. They have not spent much time with their father’s mother and she lives in an odd house in the middle of a golf course. What they find out is that she is far more unusual than they ever thought. She, along with her twin sister, are guardians of a passage between their world and the Breath World. Truman, with only the magical gift snow globe from his grandmother, finds himself traveling to the Breath World and by running away from the house where he arrives, finds himself in a dangerous situation in world with completely different rules. He finds that all of the health problems he had on the other side
have vanished and even though things are scary and uncertain, he feels more “at home” than he ever did before. Their grandmother sends Camille after him, and tells her that they must find the Ever Breath, which has been stolen, or their worlds will collapse. Unlike her brother, Camille struggles in the Breath World, but must overcome her issues to find her brother and help him find the Ever Breath. This was a clever concept for a fantasy novel, but had some unevenness from time to time.
have vanished and even though things are scary and uncertain, he feels more “at home” than he ever did before. Their grandmother sends Camille after him, and tells her that they must find the Ever Breath, which has been stolen, or their worlds will collapse. Unlike her brother, Camille struggles in the Breath World, but must overcome her issues to find her brother and help him find the Ever Breath. This was a clever concept for a fantasy novel, but had some unevenness from time to time.
January 15, 2014
The Ever breath
Por Julianna Baggott
Truman y Camille son gemelos en unas vacaciones estarán en casa de su abuela paterna ya que su mama tiene que trabajar y su padre esta desaparecido. Pero no todo es normal en casa de su abuela! Ahí existe un portal a el Ever world un mundo en donde todas esas criaturas de nuestros sueños viven, pero el Ever breath (una "piedra" que mantiene el equilibrio entre el Ever world y el mundo normal) ha sido robada!!! Truman y Camille entenderán su herencia verdadera, y lucharán para mantener el equilibrio entre estos dos mundos.
El libro me gusto!!! No creí que Julianna Baggott escribiera cosas como estas! La verdad me sorprendió. Admito que este libro tiene un estilo de escritura muy particular (diré que es el estilo propio de Julianna) porque hay capítulos en este libro infantil que tienen las mismas características que en el libro de Puro.
Si te gusta la fantasía (Narnia), la magia (Potter) y las criaturas de ensueño, este libro es para ti
June 29, 2011
Everbreath is a short fantasy adventure with plenty of twists and turns. After the unexplained disappearance of their father, twins, Truman and Camille are brought to their Grandmother Swelda who lives in a house on a golf course! How cool is that. Probably not as much as you would imagine, given that the golf balls hit the roof and the windows are boarded up. It is at this house that the children learn about their ancestors and the Fixed World and Breath World are explained. It is not surprising that the children need to enter the Breath World to save both worlds but the characters that they meet and the adventure that ensues are well developed and left me wanting to read more. I enjoyed how the main characters changed once they entered the Breath World and would certainly be looking for the next book to read.
August 31, 2016
This story features Truman and Camille and their adventures in a magical world adjacent to ours. Their father has left them and they go to stay with their grandmother, only to discover she is a guardian of an ancient portal between our world and its magical counterpart. They enter this world to discover that the ever breath, a magical force that maintains balance between both worlds, has been stolen and their father has gone to get it back. The twins learn about themselves and their strengths as they journey to save the worlds. This was a really fun and entertaining read. Baggott creates a new and unique world. Though the story has little depth or thematic material, it is a good read. I would recommend this novel to any young fantasy reader.
July 23, 2013
If you're looking for fantasy full of twisted fairy tales that wander between two worlds, look somewhere else. While this has the elements, the story itself feels cliche and doesn't have a lot to offer. From my point of view as an adult, I feel like this book talks down to children somewhat, and can be confusing.
This book was advertised as something readers of Harry Potter and the Series of Unfortunate Events. Honestly? You'd be better off re-reading those.
This book was advertised as something readers of Harry Potter and the Series of Unfortunate Events. Honestly? You'd be better off re-reading those.
February 12, 2010
This book is another one about two worlds: one with magic and one with very little magic. It involves twins (very different) and a rescue attempt. I look forward to the sequel coming up in Fall/2010. I have found that I like all of Julianna Baggott's books that I have read, and am now reading ones she wrote under another name: N.E. Bode.
June 1, 2010
a cute magical story, but not very developing, compared to other fantasy books. One in a series, interested read, more simplified probably for a younger audience. But it was still okay. I will probably read the sequel when it comes out, but I am in no rush.
March 12, 2011
A sweet and imaginative novel about a magical world existing parallel to ours. But dig a little deeper, and this novel serves also as a commentary on the use of fear as a way of controlling people. Give it to a smart kid in your life!
November 8, 2011
Short fast-paced fantasy about twins whose father disappears into a magical world,the Breath World.
The children enter this world of dragons, ogres, talking animals to save their father and the "Ever Breath"
The children enter this world of dragons, ogres, talking animals to save their father and the "Ever Breath"
November 19, 2011
The story takes on good vs. evil and leads children to question start quesitoning if those who label themselves as good are really the good ones and if the rebels are truly evil. The story is engaging and action paced. Can't waite to read the sequel.
February 13, 2013
This story is really good in the beginning. The middle was okay. The end was kind of a letdown. Saving the twins' father wasn't adventurous. The note just told them to go there. Fighting the third sister was too easy. I can guess who's bad from the beginning of the middle part of the story.
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August 4, 2013
was looking forward to the sequel but it looks like cabbot has lied. I have looked everywhere. at the library on this website at the ebook store etc. cant find it and very dissapointed. :( however this first book was very good.
January 17, 2010
she has a random writing style....a little here and then a little there...felt disjointed at times
February 12, 2010
i liked it. read it in one session. cant wait for the next one. liked the characters. the world was believeable,
March 11, 2010
Unique book. Page turner. Looking forward to the sequel.
September 3, 2010
Unusual. Obviously the start of a series. Not sure if I'll follow up.
May 31, 2011
This is a book that I'm really going to enjoy reading to my daughters in a few years, when they're eight and up. Funny, witty, and fast-paced.
October 1, 2011
Great fun. Looking forward to the sequel.
December 27, 2011
Great young reader book.
July 24, 2012
Cute otherworldly story. The last page says to find out what happens next in "The Ever Cure" coming fall of 2010 but I can't see that it was ever written, too bad it was a really fun family read.
August 31, 2014
The concept of the story is interesting but to much of a children's book for my liking. I bought this book because I read the pure series by the same author which I enjoyed better.
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