The Emerald Atlas

The Emerald Atlas

^{by Logan W.}

The Emerald Atlas is a good book with a great action story inside. The book mixes time travel and fantasy, so it can get very confusing too.  The unordinary mix of time and place, along with many un-needed characters who go back and forth throughout space-time creates some turmoil.

The story starts out with three siblings, Kate, Emma and Michael, who were left by their parents when they were young. The children went to numerous orphanages but never stayed in one place for very long. All three children had messed up their adoption interviews and were soon moving to an orphanage in Cambridge Falls, NY. They discovered the town was mysterious with a very bad past. The orphanage also was mysterious, all the rooms were abandoned and they were the only children there.

After a couple of days at the orphanage, the three find a secret room and a book with a worn green cover. The book that they found was probably a photo album. They also found an image. The siblings put the photograph in the book and discovered the Emerald Atlas.

The team used this book as a time traveling device. A child would put in the image and would go to the destination that the image was taken at. Trapped through time, the children soon learned that only they could harness the power of the book and use it to stop evil.

The Countess, a greedy witch that was hoping the Atlas could be hers, used her magic to try to take the book out of the children’s possession. As Kate, Michael and Emma meet various figures throughout the book they fight bookbook to keep it out of the wrong hands. The book is an action packed sequence of time travel that will really tempt 3^rd-7^th Graders to read the Emerald Atlas.

The Emerald Atlas is a good book that shows a lot of humor and fantasy, with a little bit of history and backstories that really explain the characters. The reader will find it very interesting. The book is available at the Tacoma Public Library, Seabury Library, King County Library, and Amazon.