Sky Jumpers: The Forbidden Flats by Peggy Eddleman

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Dec 242014
 

The Forbidden FlatsSky Jumpers: The Forbidden Flats

Author: Peggy Eddleman

Publisher: Random House

Published: September 23rd, 2014

ISBN: 978-0-307-98131-8

Hardcover: 262 pages

Middle grade fiction

FTC FYI: Borrowed a copy from the library, intend to purchase my own copy.

Goodreads Summary

Escape one danger. Jump into another. . . .

Twelve-year-old Hope has always felt a little different from everyone else who lives in White Rock. She tries hard, but she doesn’t always think before she acts. She takes big risks. Sometimes her risks pay off, but sometimes they fail. Sometimes she fails.

Hope knows that the most dangerous thing about living in White Rock is that it’s so close to the deadly Bomb’s Breath—the invisible, fifteen-foot-thick band of compressed air that’s hovered over the earth since the Green Bombs of World War III. The citizens of White Rock live in fear of the Bomb’s Breath. Only Hope has figured out a way to go through it—and lived to tell the tale.

But when a massive tremor rips across the earth, the Bomb’s Breath begins to lower over White Rock. It’s up to Hope and her friends Brock and Aaren to make the dangerous journey far from home across the bandit-ridden Forbidden Flats to the wilds of the Rocky Mountains to obtain the one thing that may be able to stop it—before the Bomb’s Breath sinks too far and destroys them all. This time, Hope can’t fail.

My Review

White Rock is in trouble once more, Hope and her town must find a way to save the them all.

Peggy Eddleman triumphs again with this enjoyable sequel.  I found myself reading and reading, and suddenly I was half way through.  Forbidden Flats reads fast, and just like the first one, has lots of action and heart.  This time Hope finds herself on a journey to save her town once again.  They are accompanied by a stranger, who seems familiar to Hope, but she can’t place it.  Hope is my hero.  This girl is amazing.  I love her willingness to try anything and the way she jumps in and helps anyone at any time.  I love books where the main lead character is a strong girl, and the Sky Jumpers series is definitely at the top of my list of favorites.

5 out of 5 stars!  Need a last minute gift?  The Sky Jumpers series is it.

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Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman

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Oct 022013
 

Sky Jumpers CoverSky Jumpers

Author: Peggy Eddleman

Publisher: Random House Children’s

Published: September 24th, 2013

ISBN13: 9780307981271

Hardcover: 288 pages

FTC FYI: Received a Netgalley copy from the publisher

Reviewed by Mindy

Goodreads Summary

What happens when you can’t do the one thing that matters most?

12-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town struggling to recover from the green bombs of World War III. The bombs destroyed almost everything that came before, so the skill that matters most in White Rock—sometimes it feels like the only thing that matters—is the ability to invent so that the world can regain some of what it’s lost.

But Hope is terrible at inventing and would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath—the deadly band of air that covers the crater the town lives in—than fail at yet another invention.

When bandits discover that White Rock has invented priceless antibiotics, they invade. The town must choose whether to hand over the medicine and die from disease in the coming months or to die fighting the bandits now. Hope and her friends, Aaren and Brock, might be the only ones who can escape through the Bomb’s Breath and make the dangerous trek over the snow-covered mountain to get help.

For once, inventing isn’t the answer, but the daring and risk-taking that usually gets Hope into trouble might just save them all.

My Review

Sky Jumpers is another fine example of excellent middle grade fiction, which is becoming my favorite genre to read and review.  I was immediately drawn into White Rock with Hope and her friends and family.  Hope is an amazing character.  We meet her at the top of a cliff.  Ready to jump into danger.  The Bomb’s Breath is a deadly gas left over from World War III that covers the crater White Rock is in.  She has been keeping this jumping from her family, knowing her parents would be terribly upset.  The bombings left almost nothing and invention is what keeps the them all going.  Hope strength is not in inventing, but what she discovers about herself and does for her town, saves them all.

5 out of 5 stars.  Sky Jumpers is an amazing story with enjoyable characters and a very clever plot that will keep you turning pages quickly.  This book is one that you can read along with your children and enjoy it as much as they will.

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