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Journey From Skioria

9/20/2017

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Nine-year-old Tania has become shipwrecked in a boating accident.  She washes up on a distant shore.  Unknown to her, Tania has found the land of Skioria.  She is taken in by Trillicus and his mate Holley.  They are Skiorians and are the same height as Tania, despite being adults.  Skiorians live high in the trees and are experts in the forest.  Tania wants to get back home and to her parents, but that is difficult.  The Skiorians will have to travel with Tania back to the human world.  It is a treacherous hike and the Skiorians are not known to the human populations.  With help from a Terran, an Avarian and another friend, Tania will find her way back, but will she want to leave her new friends?

This was an easy to read, exciting middle grad adventure set in a magical world.  Tania is desperate to get back to her parents after washing up in Skioria, however she is also captivated by their magical world and the Skiorians themselves!  I found myself wanting to explore their world more and how they lived.  I was a little dissapointed in the patriarchal society that was reinforced in Skioria, further showing middle grade readers that this is the norm. Tania's adventure home was the best part for me.  During her adventure Tania formed deep bonds of friendship and pushed herself to do things that she never thought she could do.  As an adult reader there were several times I had to take large suspensions of disbelief, especially at the end when her parents don't seem overly concerned that their daughter who has been missing for more than a month is reunited with them; however, as a middle grade reader I would have found this book to be a fun adventure into and out of a mysterious world hiding under our noses.

This book was received for free in return for an honest review. 

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