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Diary Of The Wimpy Kid: Plot Summary

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RANK Bone: Quest for the spark 2.Infinity Ring 3.The Giver 4.Jedi Academy 5.Diary of the Wimpy Kid PRODUCT DETAILS Age Range: 11-14 Grades:5-9 Level: 790L Pages: 218 Publisher: Scholastic SUMMARY Overview 12 year-old Tom, a turnip farmer from the Valley, receives a vision of a peaceful otherworld called the Dreaming is under attack. Tom Elm always dreamed of becoming a royal soldier and protecting the Queen and citizens of the Valley. He never thought he would be chosen by the Dreaming to be one of its defender against the Nacht, an evil dragon committed on destroying both the Dreaming and the Waking World(the world where Tom lives). Now Tom and his orphan raccoon friend Roderick must …show more content…

But he never thought he would be chosen by the Dreaming to be one of its defenders against the Nacht, an evil dragon who plans on destroying both the Dreaming and his world. Now Tom and his best friend (a racoon) Roderick must find and bring together the Dreaming's other defenders who includes a battle worn Veni Yan warrior a pair of evil Rat Creatures and their dead pet squirrel also a mysterious shapeshifting woman made entirely of plant life. Thankfully help arrives in the form of Bone explorer named Percival Bone and his niece and nephew who found their way into the Valley on their potato-powered air-boat. Together, the group must find and unite the missing pieces of the Spark, a magical light holding (rock) capable of driving back the Nachts’ dark …show more content…

While apparently a sequel of Jeff Smith's celebrated "Bone" comic book series, Quest for the Spark is in many ways an original story that happens to be set in Smith's "Bone" world. New author Tom Sniegoski chooses to focus on a cast of mostly new characters (although the two educationally disabled Rat Creatures from Smith's original stories return), allowing him to create a story that can be read on its own. This seems to have both advantages and disadvantages, because while Sniegoski can take his tale in a different direction from Smith's saga, he also spends much of this first book introducing the new characters and setting up the basic plotline, which can slow down the pace of the initial chapters. Either way, the story is time consuming and offers much of the same mix of dumb humor while still keeping a life-or-death drama tone that made Smith's original series so fun to

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