رازهای دنیای دورن - جلد 07 - سرزمین گمشده

The Secrets of Droon #7

by Tony Abbott, پریسا همایون‌روز (مترجم)

Into the Land of the Lost (The Secrets of Droon, #7), Tony Abbott, Tim Jessell (Illustrator)
عنوان: رازهای دنیای دورن - جلد 07 - سرزمین گمشده؛ نویسنده: تونی ابوت (ابت)؛ تصویرگر: تیم جسل؛ مترجم: پریسا همایون روز؛ تهران، قدیانی، بنفشه، 1385؛ در 72 ص، مصور؛ شابک چاپ چهارم: 9789644179785؛ موضوع: داستانهای تخیلی از نویسندگان قرن 20 م

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Middle Grade, Magic, Juvenile

72 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Tony Abbott (born 1952) is an American author of children's books. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 40 books. He has sold over 12 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. He has also written the bestseller Firegirl.

Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. His father was a university professor and had an extensive library of books which became one of Abbott's first sources of literature. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school.

Abbott attended the University of Connecticut, and after studying both music and psychology, decided to study English and graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in English literature. He attended the workshops of Patricia Reilly Giff to further develop his writing after college.

Abbott currently lives in Trumbull, Connecticut, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs. Tony had one brother and two sisters.

Reviews

[Violet · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked how it was all spooky and scary, and that it had an unpredictable ending for a change. It was worth reading. It made me want to keep reading the serious--you can just stop reading the series with an unfinished ending.

[Mosy · Rating 2 out of 5]

این جلد و جلد بعدی یه جورایی پشت سر هم هستن.
و حدودا از همین جاهاست که یه داستان کلی تر به سری حاکم میشه و بقیه کتاب ها تا حدودی در راستای اون پیرنگ بزرگ‌تر پیش میرن.

[Tyler Mauer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Children should not be consulted for plumbing advice. You could end up dematerializing

[Kryssy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The land of the lost was so fun. So many interesting characters. Typically you can spend as much time as you want in droon and it not matter. But having to leave the city by midnight is interesting to add in

And we left this book off on a cliffhanger!!!! Can’t wait to see what this means for the later books

- Pipe broke so looking for a wrench but find a message from keeah. They go to droon first because of the way time works
- Orb draws attention and forces the truth out
- Land of the lost is where living people can’t harm each other but must be gone by midnight
- City of ghosts is underwater
- Shago a rat looking thief
- Ghosts are cheerful each day but become less colorful as they realize droon is not at peace yet
- Sparr battled the queen for the wasp. She died and took it with her
- Trapped keeah in a maze
- Eric has the mail in his mind from the orb
- Call galen with the mirror to unlock his mind
- Sparr has a skeleton army so they can fight
- Shago stole the queens cane to help fight. Turns out it was the golden wasp
- Ghost’s color is coming back. They have hope in the friends to bring peace
- Shago gave julie her bracelet back after stealing it. But… it has a different charm on it. One from droon…
- Eric’s dad disappears and charm begins to growl!! What!?

[Pamela Hatch · Rating 5 out of 5]

SUMMARY: Lord Sparr has taken Princess Keeah to help find the Golden Wasp which is hidden in the Land of the Lost where the warriors of Droon wait as prisoners in ghost-like form until the day when they are set free. Eric, Julie, and Neal are summoned to Droon in hopes to spoil Lord Sparr's plans before time runs out and they become ghosts themselves.

NOTES: A very good volume in the Droon series packed full of adventure and story line reminiscent of Tolkien's LOTR series. One of my favorites in the series so far. -- It is also the only volume so far that has a cliffhanger ending that leaves the adventure unresolved.

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

That terrible awful rotten writer Mr. Abbott has apparently watched some old episodes of Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers, or some other movie short that has inspired him into the Cliffhanger Phase of his books, Has nobody told him how harmful it is to put a poor child into suspense at the end of his book forcing the innocent victim into buying the next book to find out what happens only to be thrown back into another cliffhanger repeating the horrible cycle over and over until the victim becomes a fast and avid reader? well now he knows. This was a good read.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ooh, finally an ending with a cliff hanger! I had been waiting for something like this to happen since the first book...

Eric and crew head to Agrah-Voor, a land where the ghosts of fallen Droon warrior heroes reside, in an attempt to save Keeah from the evil Lord Sparr. Excellent world building, characters, and plot as usual.

[Maximilian Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book because I like really super duper duper mega hyper secrets. I also liked this book because I liked the part when everyone went into the "black" water.

[Paula Greenfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eric and his friends have to go to the land of the dead and find the golden wasp. They have to be out of the land of the lost by midnight.

[Ayansh Agarwal · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bit scary but I enjoyed it.

[Angie Titus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good adventure story for the younger end of middle grade. Ends on a cliffhanger.

[Jack Silvernagel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was great! Shago slays, the city of the dead was really cool, Sparr put Keeah in the prison realm, and there was a cliffhanger!

[Harold Ogle · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Droon books are getting more and more engaging, as the plotting is better, even if the writing isn't particularly improving. The books still have tons of fragment sentences, and Abbott is really, really overfond of onomatopoeia of his own invention. But the plot races along in an engaging way.

This one has the kids go down to the basement to fetch a wrench to help Eric's dad with a plumbing emergency. There they are alerted of a Droon emergency. Figuring that trips to Droon take no time in our world, they quickly reenter Droon to meet Galen, Max and Keeah just as Lord Sparr appears. He uses a black orb to stun Eric with a flash of light and to hypnotize Keeah. The Princess climbs aboard the sorceror's groggle and they fly off together. In leaving, Sparr summons a huge nest of giant snakes to terrorize Droon and distract Galen. Galen must go to defend the upper world, and he sends the kids with Max to see if they can do anything about rescuing Keeah in the underworld, known here as the Land of the Lost. The kids descend into the underworld, where Sparr is trying to find another one of the concealed artifacts, the Golden Wasp. The Golden Wasp controls emotions absolutely. Outside the city of the dead, the kids meet Shago, a rat-man thief/wizard who lives at the edges of the city to be near his dead family, as Shago initially steals a bunch of their items. They reveal that they were sent by Galen, and so Shago helps them into the city, to meet the Queen, Hazad. They just have time to say hello before Sparr arrives and begins to tear the city apart in his search for the Wasp. The dead go to oppose Sparr, and he summons some skeleton warriors, the Skorth, to battle the heroic dead. Then the kids move to stop Sparr, and in scorning them, Sparr reveals that he "has a mission" to conquer the Upper world (that is, our world). So Sparr distracts them by creating a giant maze of rock (with Keeah in the center) using the black orb. Eric realizes he has the map of the maze imprinted on his retinas from the black orb's earlier flash, so they navigate to the center of the maze while the city is torn apart and the Skorth defeat the dead. On exiting, the kids confront Sparr, who goes to use his orb again. Shago fetches Eric a stick, which Eric uses to smash the orb. But in doing so, Eric reveals that the stick is actually the disguised Golden Wasp. Sparr grabs it and leaves. The kids race out of the city, and Neal uses the city's water supply to defeat the Skorth. Shago returns the kids' items, they leave the Land of the Lost, confess Sparr's victory to Galen, and return home via the rainbow stairs. On returning to our world, Julie discovers that the bracelet Shago gave her is not actually hers: it's a Droon item. In the very first book, the kids were warned that any item from one world crossing into the other allows other items to cross as well. Julie is shocked to discover this "mistake," and Eric's dad comes down the basement stairs to see what's taking so long...and he fades away, disappearing into Droon. The kids immediately jump back into the cupboard under the stairs to return to Droon and rescue Eric's dad...

Needless to say, since I've been expecting with every book that the kids would stay in Droon, this book was a welcome change. While they don't stay in Droon, it's nice to have that additional cliffhanger that they've actually gone back to Droon to rectify their mistake...

[Jong Yang · Rating 5 out of 5]

The characters in this book are Eric, Julie, Neal, Mr. Hinkles (Eric's dad), Keaah, Max, Sparr, and Galen. Eric, Julie, and Neal found this new world and no one else knows about but them. Julie and Neal came over to Eric's house but Eric and his dad were still trying to fix this leak under the sink. Mr. Hinkles turned the nozzle then the pipe broke and water squirted everywhere. Eric's dad told him and his friends to go find a wrench but instead of finding a wrench for his dad they went into the "secret world". The secret world time is not the same as the normal world. They went to the other world because when they see a ball that means that something bad is happening. Keaah is a princess and Max is her friend, and Sparr is a wicked sorcerer. Sparr is trying to look for the golden wasp but Keaah the princess hid it somewhere, Keaah wouldn't tell Sparr so he got this magic orb to make Keaah tell him where she hid the golden wasp. He used it and Keaah told him where she hid it so Sparr took Keaah and took off to find the golden wasp. Galen is a wizard, he told Eric, Julie, and Neal that they need to go to Agrah-Vroom . The Wizard told them the shortcut to that place and Sparr doesn't know the shorcut. So if they take the shortcut they should get there before Sparr does. If they stat pass midnight then they will turn into ghosts. After all this book is a really good book.

[Books Kids Like · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lord Sparr hopes to conquer the entire world with the Golden Wasp, an instrument which makes people forget. The ghosts of Droon’s dead warriors inhabit the Land of the Lost where they train and wait for the day when peace will reign again, and they can return. When Sparr imprisons Keeah in a stony maze, Eric frees her with Galen’s help. Together, the children and the ghosts fight Sparr’s skeleton warriors and save the land from total destruction, but they cannot keep the Wasp from Sparr’s evil grasp. He escapes with this ultimate weapon. When Eric, Neal, and Julie return to their world, Julie realizes that the bracelet that was stolen from her in Droon and then returned is not her Upper World bracelet. The rule that forbids the children from bringing anything from Droon into the Upper World has been broken. As they run for the staircase, the charm on the bracelet begins to growl!
©2024 Kathy Maxwell at https://bookskidslike.com

[Benjamin · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I did already read the series when I was younger, I decided I wanted to read it again and relive the fun. I was surprised to see the book wasn't quite as long or fun as I remember it was still quite enjoyable.

Starting off right in to the action was great and I loved feeling like I was coming back right into the thick of battle. The mind-controlling orb was a bit dissatisfying, though, it did make a nice plot point. Finding out they had messed up at the end made a nice cliff hanger, though it did frustrate me personally, seeing as I didn't own the next book in the series.

Even though I restarted here, I always recommend to start at the root, so have at it, hope you enjoy.

Cheers!

[Jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've decided to read The Secrets of Droon series entirely for Christmas since i've been feeling a bit nostalgic. I want to be able to live a bit of the magic of being a kid and what beeter to help than this incredible series. This one is full of action and we also get to meet a new cast of interesting characters. What I really like about this book is the cliffhanger that it leaves us right at the end. Each book gets a bit better than its predecessor, adding a bit more wonder and adventure to the series.

[Priya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Into the land of the Lost was an interesting read.

The kids travel to agrah voor to stop Lott Sparr from getting the golden wasp

I liked the world of droon and the vivid imagination of this place described in words

I felt like I was a part of the story experience the grandeur of the place

The series is getting better with every book … supposed to be a re read … but don’t recollect reading this installment at all

[Shae · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book in like 4th grade. I loved it. The Droon books were very interesting and sparked my imagination. This was the most exciting one of the ones I read. To be honest, though, I don't remember a ton what it was about. I just remember that I liked it.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Same.

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the character of Queen Hazad :-)

[Owen · Rating 4 out of 5]

They went to some place called Agrah-voor. They had to get the job done
before 12 o-clock, or they would turn into ghosts

[Gabriela · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Felicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute adventure story for 2nd or 3rd grade level readers.

[Matazuki · Rating 2 out of 5]

it was scary,but it was o.k.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was really creepy and they almost died! it was really good!

[Keli Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

The kids loved this book

[Diana Pettis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Predictable story about the adventure of Eric, Julie, and Neal.

[Anna]

Cliffhanger ending. Make sure you have the next book ready before you finish this one.

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good chapter in the Droon series. Again, I loved the cover, and the story lived up to it.