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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9781416948513 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1416948511 Label: Simon Pulse Manufacturer: Simon Pulse Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: October 21, 2008 Publisher: Simon Pulse Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Simon Pulse Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story." It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought together again to solve a mystery: Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial wings: "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well. The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A great series! An insult to say its for children/young adults only!Search for the REd Dragon" is a wonderful second installment in what is shaping up to be an incredible series that is worth keeping on the shelf for re-reading. Once again we are wisked away into fantastic adventure with CSLewis, JRR Tolkien and Charles Williams, who are caretakers of a wonderful book that details the layouts and holdings of imaginary lands now seperated from "reality." The book is full of a good mystery, plenty of colorful characters and interesting lands. This time ... Read More Rating:  - A rich, multi-layered fantasyIn HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS, James A. Owen introduced readers to John, Jack and Charles, three adventurers who traveled through mythology, folklore and biblical stories to save the world in their new positions as Caretakers. Nine years have passed, but this time they come together to find the thousands of missing children disappearing all over the magical world. John, Jack and Charles are careful never to be seen together, lest their secret status is revealed. John and Charles know that ... Read More Rating: - Nicely DoneEnjoyed the plot and the characters. Need a fairly decent knowledge of literary figures and authors to understand all the interesting twists. Rating: - excellent An expertly woven suspenseful eery book with all the right elements. I saw the movie before reading this , so i pictured all the actors as I read this. Very very good book. Rating:  - DisappointingThis sequel doesn't come up to the standard set by the first book in the series, "Here There Be Dragons". It starts off in a promising way, but then falls flat. The author is so caught up in creating a pastiche of myth and literature that the story never really comes alive. Okay, so he ties in Greek mythology and Grimm's fairy tales, but who cares? Let's hope the next book in the series is as good as the first one was. 
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