| The Outcast (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 8) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 12751
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0439739519
EAN: 9780439739511
ASIN: 0439739519
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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 The best guardian book!!! June 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I give this a 5 stars because I've read all the books even the ninth, still waiting for the tenth, guadians are my life! Any way, it's amazing! Everyone should read this book! I wish I could tell you everything but then it would ruin the surpise in the end. Just becarful there's some thing that you won't like.
Guardians of Ga'Hoole is the best! May 3, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Outcast is very exciting and suspensful. The pictures on the cover and on the inside of the book are wonderful. It is so good that you could sit there and read the whole book all day. Its characters (although owls) are a lot like us. They feel the same, act the same, and are very true to life. The Outcast teaches lessons that everyone needs to learn. I can't wait until the tenth book, The Coming of Hoole, comes out in July!
The Outcast Reviewed by Soren April 2, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Finally! The eagerly anticipated 8th installment in the best-selling Guardians of Ga'Hoole series! The Outcast, as all Guardians of Ga'Hoole fans would most certainly agree, was probably the most exciting and nerve-racking book so far. The tensiom between Coryn (once Nyroc) & Soren, his uncle? I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! This book includes many new phrases, which fans love to add to their vocabulary, like gnaw wolves, creelies, Sacred Ring, cheiftain, lochinvyrr, ect. Well, as most of you know, the series has been following a new character instead of Soren- Nyroc. Nyroc, son of Kludd & Nyra, is heir to the Pure Ones. Not the likely main character choice, eh? However, Nyraoc is, unlike his parents, very kind-hearted! The seventh book ends with him cursing his very father's scroom on the edge of a lake. This is where the Outcast picks up in it's Prologue. In this book, Nyroc changes his name to Coryn, which is Nyroc backwards. It also sounds a lot like Soren. The main point of these 2 books is the tension between an outcast and a guardian, and how they cannot meet eachother, for one is not welcome, and the other one doesn't know the other exists. Coryn, being a shadow king, is not welcome at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where his uncle, Soren, lives. To be accepted in the Great Tree, Coryn must retrieve the Ember of Hoole hidden deep within one of the volcanoes of the Sacred Ring, where noble King Hoole hid it 1,000 years ago. If Coryn succeeds, then that means he is the heir of Hoole and that he is king of Ga'Hoole. If Coryn gets the Ember, then he can meet his uncle. Read this book!!! It will be worth everything!!! Trust me!
The Best Yet February 20, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Young Nyroc has rejected the Pure Ones and all they stand for. Though he is the lone son of their slain leader, Kludd, and his vicious mate Nyra, he has found out for himself (through the murder of his best friend by his own mother) that he simply cannot lead this group of evil owls. So he changes his name to Coryn and flies to Beyond the Beyond, a faraway land of active volcanoes and outcasts like himself, where he hopes to find a way to be accepted by the civilized owl world.
Here, Coryn meets dire wolves, his old friend Gwyndor, and finally Otulissa, who has left the Great Ga'Hoole Tree against her own reason to teach Coryn how to be a collier.
Nyra, meanwhile, is intent on hunting down and killing her son for deserting the Pure Ones, and ultimately seizing control of the owl universe. So she plans to help out the most desperate clan of dire wolves, the MacHeaths, by preparing to bring them to their "rightful" position as guardians of the legendary Ember of Hoole and convincing them that Coryn is the one who cannot be trusted with the Ember.
It becomes abundantly clear that Coryn must be the one who gets the Ember, and quickly. The fate of the owl world is at stake. Can he retreive the Ember in time? Read Guardians of Ga'Hoole #8: The Outcast to find out!
Exciting and Imaginative January 6, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed this entire series. I also appreciate the quarterly releases rather than waiting two or three years for the next installment. As a mother I find these books lighter and more positive than other series in the simular genre.
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