{"id":2040,"date":"2011-08-12T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_guest\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2011-08-11T13:34:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:34:51","slug":"a-teenagers-review-of-ridley-pearsons-kingdom-keepers-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/a-teenagers-review-of-ridley-pearsons-kingdom-keepers-series\/","title":{"rendered":"A Teenager’s Review of Ridley Pearson’s Kingdom Keepers Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

About two weeks ago, I read the Kingdom Keepers<\/em>, a Disney publication written by Ridley Pearson.\u00a0 Highly enjoyable, this young adult fiction series pleases its readers.\u00a0 Practically forcing me to continue, these books captivated me for the eight days it took me to complete them.<\/p>\n

In this story, five middle school age kids \u2013 Finn, Charlene, Philby, Willa, and Maybeck \u2013 are chosen to be Disney Host Interactives (DHIs), holographic tour guides for Walt Disney World.\u00a0 A glitch occurs when the real kids go to sleep and shockingly cross over into Disney World as their DHIs.\u00a0 Wayne, the only living Imagineer who knew Walt personally, explains this is no accident.\u00a0 He and fellow Imagineers constructed the server this way so the kids, chosen for their skill and knowledge, could fight the real live Disney villains, led by Sleeping Beauty\u2019s antagonist Maleficent, and save Walt Disney World.<\/p>\n

In the four spectacular books already written in this series – The Kingdom Keepers: Disney after Dark<\/em>, The Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn<\/em>, The Kingdom Keepers III: Disney in Shadow<\/em>, and The Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play<\/em> – the kids visit all four theme parks and Disney Quest.\u00a0 Since each park varies, their unique adventures greatly differ.\u00a0 The books use the various settings to make each story one-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n

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This intriguing series make me wonder if the modifications to Disney World that occur in this book will really happen.\u00a0 For example, in Power Play<\/em>, the middle-schoolers are spying at Soarin\u2019 while it is being reconstructed from a California film to a New York film.\u00a0 Will Disney change the theme of Soarin\u2019?\u00a0 Likewise, I wonder if certain items in the books really exist.\u00a0 For example, Virtual Magic Kingdom, an online game, was used by the kids as a way to keep in touch and make plans.\u00a0 When I Googled it, I found that it really had existed for a short while around the time the book was written.<\/p>\n

The series makes me want to visit Disney\u2019s restricted areas, such as the top of the Cinderella\u2019s Castle and the Utilidors (underground headquarters), where the characters have some of their adventures.\u00a0 The secret codes used in the parks by the characters also fascinate me and make me long to try them out in particular attractions on my next Disney vacation.<\/p>\n

Lessons may be learned from the Kingdom Keepers<\/em> novels, such as teaching people to work together.\u00a0 One person alone cannot achieve as much, but when using teamwork,\u00a0almost anything can be accomplished.\u00a0 The series also deals with honesty.\u00a0 Trying to always tell the truth, Finn does not like lying to his mom and dad.\u00a0 However, he is willing to stretch the truth.\u00a0 My only complaint is that the series implies that\u00a0deceiving parents\u00a0is acceptable under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n

Mysterious and intriguing, the Kingdom Keepers<\/em> appealed to me so much that I had difficulty putting the books down. I started Disney after Dark<\/em>, a 325 page book, around 3:00 P.M. one Sunday afternoon and finished it after 11:00 P.M. that same night. Being a Disney fan who loves mystery and adventure, I recommend these exciting books to people of all ages. Ridley Pearson left me hanging with a surprising ending. I eagerly look forward to reading his fifth book, Shell Game<\/em>, which will be released in 2012. Suspenseful and exciting, the Kingdom Keepers<\/em> series will always be one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

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