They literally sell used Animorphs books on Amazon for 1p, but library bound ones cost hundreds of pounds, or whatever your currency is. I don't even...
Apparently, the Guardians of Ga'Hoole first-three-books omnibus on Kindle (which also displays the cover of The Rise of a Legend, for some reason) only has The Capture on it. Also, there seems to be two versions of the book with the original cover style: one with the close-up of half of that brown owl, and another showing Soren getting captured. The copy I own is neither; it's the movie-branded one.
I also can't think of The Capture without thinking of the Animorphs book of the same name. Now someone go write an Animorphs/Ga'Hoole crossover.
Incomplete list of books I like that are so obscure, they don't have Wikipedia pages(should I make a thread for this?)
- To Be a Cat standalone
Barney Willow thinks life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him - Barney has no idea why. And headteacher-from-hell Miss Whipmire seems determined to make every second of Barney's existence a complete misery! Worst of all, Dad has been missing for almost a year, and there's no sign of him ever coming home.
Barney just wants to escape. To find another life... Being a cat, for example. A quiet, lazy cat. Things would be so much easier - right?
Barney's about to discover just how wrong he is...
- The Last Wild trilogy The Last Wild, The Dark Wild, and The Wild Beyond
In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone a bit mad.
But the animals have something to say. And they need him...
The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester's help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub, a military-trained cockroach, a mouse with a dance for everything, and a stubborn girl named Polly.
The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?
- The Parent Agency standalone
Barry Bennett is sick of his parents. They’re boring, they’re too strict, and it’s their fault his name is Barry. So he makes a wish for better ones—and is whisked away to the Parent Agency, where kids get to pick out their perfect parents.
For Barry, this seems like a dream come true. But as he’s about to discover, choosing a new mum and dad isn’t as simple as it sounds…
If you'd like to read them, they're all available on Kindle and The Last Wild isn't too hard to find in stores. In the United Kingdom, at least.
The Last Wild brings me to something I don't like about books: glowing reviews that don't tell you anything. The Last Wild has been praised with things such as:
The Times wrote:As thrilling as James and the Giant Peach.
Is that really the most thrilling book you can think of?
Eva Ibbotson wrote:Splendid stuff
Care to elaborate?
The Times wrote:[...]The Last Wild may be as critical to the new generation as Tarka the Otter.
...What's that?
Honestly, some of the reviews are good, but others wouldn't look out of place on Fanfiction.net. On the other hand, the original Bloomsbury paperback of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has reviews on it that actually tell us why the book is good, rather than just random gushing.
...Sorry about the long post, it's just that The Last Wild is good, but not groundbreaking, in my humble opinion. And then the movie'll come out, and I can be a hipster...
