Pendragon

The Pendragon Series: Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space: By D.J. MacHale!!

Dang these books are soo cool!! A reader comment on the book says she thinks they're better than Harry Potter...but even these sweet books couldn't be better than Harry Potter! Man! They are FANTASTIC though. Cheri, I think your kids would love them! So the premise is (i don't know if premise is the right word..) the main character Bobby Pendragon is on his way out the door of his house to play in the big basketball game of the season. He's the star of the team but he never makes it there. Right before he leaves his Uncle Press comes to his house and tells him he's a Traveler. A Traveler is someone who goes through the flumes (tunnels that magically and kind of unexplainably take the travelers to other "territories" or planets) to all the territories (there are 10 which include 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Earth. 2nd earth is right now, 1st is in the 1920's or so, and 3rd is in the distant future). Each territory will have a "turning point". A time when the future of the territory will change drastically either for the better or the worse. But there is a bad guy. His name is Saint Dane and he is trying to make the turning points turn the wrong way so he can rule "Halla" (everything, everyone, and every time that ever was and will be). It also makes it worse that Saint Dane can change his appearance to anyone so that the travelers never know who he is. So off they go to the territories. In the first (The Merchant of Death) they go to Denduron which is in medievil times with knights and everything. There Bobby meets Osa and Loor the travelers from Zadaa (which is like Africa). In the second (The Lost City of Faar) they go to Cloral which is a world entirely of water. The people there live on huge-mongous boat/islands that have whole cities and farms and everything on them. The traveler from Cloral is Spader (he's my fave : D). In the third (the Never War) Bobby goes to the first and third earths (but the turning point is on first) and meets the traveler Gunny. In the fourth (the Reality Bug) he goes to Veelox which is normal in appearance and the people are humans and all, but there's this thing called Lifelite that you go into and live in your fantasies. So everyone, except the people that run the machines, is asleep and in Lifelite. The traveler from Veelox is Aja Killian. In the fifth (Black Water) they go to Eelong, where the "civilized" beings are large talking jungle cats. The humans are basically their slaves so that makes things a bit difficult for Bobby to be there. The traveler there is named Kasha. In the 6th (the Rivers of Zadaa) he obviously goes to Zadaa where the black people live above land which is desert but they have rivers until the white people who live underground take all the water underground with them, starting a nice big war. In the newest book, the seventh (the Quillan Games) Bobby goes to Quillan where the people are basically zombies and they have to gamble on games in order to get food and clothes and such. If they lose bad stuff happens. So it's pretty wacked out. Anyway that was a short but not so short summary of it all. That was like the very minimum I could've told you. Just take my word for it these books are Sweet with a capital S! I can't wait for the 8th one (Pendragon the Great) which should come out next summer. So there'll probably be Harry Potter 7 and Pendragon 8!! WOOHOO!!! Check them out at this website: http://www.thependragonadventure.com/.