The Capture (Guardians of Ga'hoole #1): Volume 1

by Kathryn Lasky

Book Overview

A classic hero mythology about the fight between good and evil, Guardians of Ga'Hoole is filled with adventure, suspense, and heart.

Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to shatter Tyto's peace and change the course of Soren's life forever.Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439405572
• ISBN13: 9780439405577
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Book is good

It’s a great story from what I remember as a kid, however it never arrived

great book

the charaters were introduced very quickly so that was over with and you can get on with the story.the setting is really neat.owls try to take over all the other owl kingdoms by moon blinking other owls.i recomend this to 8 9 and 10 year olds.this book was so interesting i read it in a day.

The Capture

> "Guardians of Ga'Hoole, The Capture," is a fiction adventure book <br>by Kathryn Lasky.It is the first of the series. The next book is "The <br>Journey."<br>> <br>> Soren is a barn owl who lives with his mother, father, brother <br>and new sister. They live in the forest kingdom of Tyto, in the southern <br>kingdoms of the owl world. Their life was the same as any other owl <br>family, until Soren fell out of their hollow and got snatched. He came to <br>St. Aegolius Academy for orphaned owls, where horrible owls take young <br>owls from their homes and have them help to lead the owl world to <br>them.They have them do something called Moon blinking, which hypnotizes <br>them so they do not escape.Soren and his friend Gylfie do not get <br>moonblinked. Together they try to go save the owl world from disaster.<br>> <br>> I think this is a wonderful book for people who love adventure <br>stories. The ages that people would most enjoy this book would be 8-12. <br>It has new excitement on every page, and you always want to know what's <br>going to happen next. There never seems to be a dull moment in this <br>book.

Action packed, escaping owls

Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole is looking like a really great series so far. This author has a very big imagination, and a very stretched vocabulary. This book, #1 The Capture, is very different and I'll tell you why. There are no people in this book. Just owls. In this book, the owls have dialouge. They're regular characters in the story. It's very exciting to see and think what the owls see and think to each other. I thought that this was very interesting to see how the owls interacted like people. So I kept reading, and started to really like this book. Soren is a baby owl, just about 2 weeks. He is a barn owl in the kingdom of Tyto. He has a newborn sister, Eglantine, and an older snobby brother Kludd. Soren is living a great life with his parents until he falls out of his nest onto the floor of the woods, or maybe, pushed out. Soren is then scooped up that night by an older adult owl, and taken to an academy for orphan owls. Soren does not like this, he's not an orphan. Soren meets a smaller owl around his age that was also captured. His name is Gylfie. Soren and Gylfie do not like this place, its weird, and scary for them. Soren and Gylfie figure out that this is not a good place to hang out for a while. They have to get out, but how. They have to fly, something that they are not capable of doing as an owlet. I really recommend this book because, youm really do not want to stop reading. Theres constant action, and constant thinking between the owls. This book is not to long if your worried about that. It's only 235 pages with a chapter about the sequel, The Journey. It's deffinatly action packed when the owls escape. You definitally do not want to stop reading #1 The Capture, and all the other, Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole books.

Exciting and Wonderfully Imaginative

I got this book at a Book Fair at my school and it took me, all in all, probably three hours of (noncontinuous) reading over a span of a day and a half. This book is absolutely excellent! I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next books in the series. Perhaps the author isn't the best poet, but that's not the point of the story. The point of the story is to believe in yourself, no matter what obstacles you encounter, which Soren and Gylfie (the main characters) definitely accomplished. This book will make you laugh (the owls say "Good light" instead of "good night") and it may make you cry (but I won't tell you when or why). This book is definitely for fans of Richard Adams's Watership Down (which I shall read soon). Reading it would be a wiser choice than any owl could ever make!