

To Be a King
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Narrator: Pamela Garelick
Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/01/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Narrator: Pamela Garelick
Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/01/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories
Kathryn Lasky is the award winning author of many children's books as well as several adult novels including Night Gardening and the Calista Jacobs mystery series. Her best selling series The Guardians of Ga'Hoole was made into a Warner Brothers movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole directed by Zack Snyder. She is the recipient of a Newbery Honor award and twice winner of the National Jewish Book Award, as well as recognition from Amnesty International for her novel The Extra. Her work has been translated into nineteen languages worldwide. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Lutta plotline is one of the most fucked-up things I have ever read......more
Wonderful. It is the conclusion of the legends. Hoole must now mass an army of all types of creatures to defeat this nachtmagen (evil magic) once in for all. It is very inspirational, heroic, adventurous and of course, sad. But that's the nature of war. What I really like is the strength of the char......more
Overall Rating : B+ "Evil may cloak itself as good, and good can sometimes appear to be evil. They know each other's ways."......more
Honestly, it was a well written book and I like it a lot, but the ending felt rushed. And well, that last part about Lutta? That broke my heart. In some ways, it was good it didn't end up with her saving everyone and finding love with Hoole. But she was merely a victim and she deserved redemption.......more
Really the whole set. My nephew started me on these when I was recovering from surgery and staying at his house so they could watch over me. I read his 8, sent them to the bookstore for book 9, have since read book 10. I see I am behind again. I think these are among the best children's books and th......more