For the sake of clarity, this timeline rearranges the book's episodes in the order in which they occurred, rather than the order in which they appear in Into the Wild. But for Trick the stakes couldn't be higher: if he doesn't defeat Boneshaker, he'll never see his home again.Because author Jon Krakauer presents the events of Into the Wild out of chronological order, establishing what happened when can challenge the reader. Assembling his personal army of proud, dangerous warriors to fulfill this epic quest is easier said than done. Trick has been chosen to form a band of the seven greatest warriors to defeat this terrible enemy. On the run from the class bullies, Trick finds himself transported to the mystical Wildlands, a place where the greatest warriors throughout history have been summoned to fight in a battle for survival - from Romans and Vikings to Knights and Samurai! A cryptic old man known as Kalaban tells Trick that he's there for a reason - to deliver the Wildlands from the evil overlord Boneshaker, who rules with an iron fist and an army of terrifying minions.
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The first book in a brand-new fiction series by Curtis Jobling, for 9-12 year olds, based on bestselling global game sensation, World of Warriors! Richard 'Trick' Hope is used to getting into trouble, but not like this. It shows that the unchanging series book characters demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact ever is on them, reflecting an exercise in spatial authority that most children and even children’s book heroes never quite experience. Surely there is something significant about the relationship of series books to those spaces their protagonists inhabit? This collection explores that relationship, the dynamics between the controlled spaces of childhood and the variable spaces of juvenile series literature.
In fact, one could argue that the only dynamic that ever experiences any alteration in a series like Nancy Drew is setting. Though characters like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys frequently move through different geographies, they never change as characters. However, what about juvenile series books, whose central protagonists generally never grow or change? The central character of these series-usually a flat, unchanging trope more than a fully realized, fleshed-out, dynamic figure-is a static creation. For these characters, movement through space is about growth and change, about accepting the inevitability of growing up and the responsibility of the adulthood, whether that be marriage and motherhood or vanquishing the most evil wizard of all time. In children’s literature, spaces are often seen as noteworthy markers of a child’s progression toward adulthood, whether the space is Laura Ingalls’ little house or Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. Space is made for them, but certainly not to their own specifications or liking. Children exist in spaces that are crafted for them by adults-by parents, by school administrators and teachers-and, as such, their impact on space can be somewhat limited. Just as much, however, those places we inhabit shape us, causing us to adapt ourselves to them. We make space: our agencies, our cultures, our beliefs and values and understandings shape the macro- and micro-environments around us. Theories of space and place also hold that the converse is equally true-that we have an impact on those spaces and places we inhabit or dwell within. Where we come from, where we are, where we have been, and where we are going all have a huge impact on who we are.