I thought this book was a lot of fun and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I read it with a 7th grade student that I am tutoring, and she (it's not just a boy book!) loved it as well. I like the underwater world that E.J. Altbacker created, complete with its own mythology/history and systems of org...
Even so, he had rushed a little when going through the fire waters. He didn’t like staying so close to the shifting seabed with all its seaquake tremors. One time, a gout of lava breached the surface fifty tail strokes to his left and exploded with a rumbling BOOOOOM! It w...
The main cohort would be a day or two behind them, along with the royal court. And Finnivus. How could I have been so blinded by my loyalty to his father? Whalem thought, remembering his friend King Romulus. Mari was with him. Hold, she signaled. It was a full thirty seconds before Whalem’s far p...
It was pitch-black, for it was night above the chop-chop, with no moon to provide even a little light. The ancient coral spires stood, wickedly sharp and unmoving, mocking him in the darkness. The greenie harness chafed and rubbed Gray raw under his fins and belly. How Takiza had managed to weave...
They were only a half-day swim from Fathomir and the sun was shining brightly, though the clear waters were cooler than those they left in the southern Sific. Gray had actually solved a problem in his position as Aquasidor! And both sides, while not exactly overjoyed with his solution, respected ...
It would be foolish to lead the attack himself. He wasn’t in this for personal glory. He wanted to win. And their best chance was with Striiker directing the battle from the diamondhead. But that didn’t mean he would let the great white and the other mariners fight without him. ...