The Portal Keeper

The Portal Keeper
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 177488027X

Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series. While exploring World’s End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and Emily delight in their developing relationship, while Eli struggles to understand his new-found power: the ability to locate a portal. A shocking turn of events leads them to a new village, Ministik, where the animal beings who live there are going missing. Horrified to discover who is responsible, the children vow to help and turn to friends, old and new. But it's getting harder and harder to keep the two worlds separate, especially when details of a traditional legend change everything. Forever.

The Portal Keeper

The Portal Keeper
Author: S T Sanchez
Publisher: Sarah Sanchez
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780999001639

"Love this book! Couldn't put it down. Cannot wait for the second book!" V. Bruderer A shadow of shame has fallen over the once proud Maxwell family, and only their faithful son Ajax, can restore honor to their name. He is tasked with guarding a mysterious portal, the existence of which only a few people outside the King are aware. A prophecy warns of a danger to come, as the new keeper, Ajax fears he will let everyone down. When the Prince of Rastella comes to visit the portal for the first time, accompanied by Ajax's childhood friend Nivara, disaster strikes! In an accident, the Prince falls into the portal and Ajax knows that it's up to him to venture in and get him back. With the knowledge that nobody who has entered it has ever returned, Ajax and Nivara leap through the portal to try to save the Prince. He discovers a world full of magic and fantastic creatures, in an adventure that will test him to his limits, and leave him wondering if he will ever get home. If you like Brandon Mull, you'll love The Portal Keeper!

The Keepers: The Portal and the Veil

The Keepers: The Portal and the Veil
Author: Ted Sanders
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062275909

In the third book of Ted Sanders’ Keepers series, Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their way of life—and the world as we know it. Horace F. Andrews and his friends are fighting the battle of their lives, a battle that will decide the fate of everyone and everything they love. As Wardens and Keepers of Tan’ji, the fabled talismans of power, it is their duty to keep the world safe from those who would destroy it. But all is not as it seems. Sometimes there are too many secrets, and too many places to stumble in the dark. When one powerful Keeper and his Tan’ji are kidnapped, the Wardens have to ask who could have betrayed them. Who could have let the enemy into their stronghold? This third book in Ted Sanders’ gripping series leads the reader onto new paths, new revelations, and new mysteries in the Keepers saga, where answers only bring more questions and the secrets behind the true nature of good and evil are revealed.

The Portal Keeper

The Portal Keeper
Author: Grace Welch
Publisher: Cyberwit.Net
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789389690606

In The Portal Keeper, Grace Welch has written a compelling, gut-wrenching novel of dark fantasy with a modern twist. Aisling, the protagonist, opens doors to other places and times, where she works for gods, fey, and the common good.

The Great Bear

The Great Bear
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 073526614X

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time. Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher that might just be their lost friend. But they discover that the village is once again in peril, and they must dig deep within themselves to find the strength to protect their beloved friends. Can they carry this strength back home to face their own challenges?

The Barren Grounds

The Barren Grounds
Author: David A. Robertson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0735266115

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.

The Keepers: The Box and the Dragonfly

The Keepers: The Box and the Dragonfly
Author: Ted Sanders
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062275844

Experience the fantastic adventure filled with magical objects, secret sects, and life as we know it on the line! Mixing magic and physics, Ted Sanders has created an epic story that has the feel of classic fantasy but twists it into something new and innovative. From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus—a sign with his own name on it—everything changes. The sighting leads him underground, to the House of Answers, a hidden warehouse full of mysterious objects. But there, he finds only questions. What is this curious place? Who are the strange, secretive people who entrust him with a rare and immensely powerful gift? And what is he to do with it? When Horace finds the Box of Promises in the curio shop, he quickly discovers that ordinary-looking objects can hold extraordinary power. From the enormous, sinister man shadowing him to the gradual mastery of his newfound abilities to his encounters with Chloe—a girl who has an astonishing talent of her own—Horace follows a path that puts the pair in the middle of a centuries-old conflict between two warring factions in which every decision they make could have disastrous consequences.

The Portal of Alesia

The Portal of Alesia
Author: W B Speir
Publisher: Progressive Rising Phoenix Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781958640562

The Keeper of the Portal of Alesia is missing! Each of the Portal Keepers are tasked with protecting the portals from misuse and preventing armies from using the portals for conquest. Nikki, Justin, and their quester friends, are tasked with finding the missing Portal Keeper and returning him to Alesia before his portal can be used for evil purposes. But this quest will not be easy. There will be danger and mortal peril, like they experienced on their last quest in this strange land. Can the relationships forged in their first quest together survive a cunning enemy determined to cause their quest to fail by any means necessary, even if it means torturing every quester on the team or using them against one another until the team can no longer pose any threat to the enemy's mad ambitions? In this second installment of The Quester Trilogy, Award-winning author W. B. Speir continues the spicy romantic saga of Nikki, Justin, a their teammates as they fight a new enemy, his minions, and each other, to save their relationships and complete the quest.

The Keepers #3: The Portal and the Veil

The Keepers #3: The Portal and the Veil
Author: Ted Sanders
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780062275899

In the third book of Ted Sanders’ Keepers series, Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their way of life—and the world as we know it. Horace F. Andrews and his friends are fighting the battle of their lives, a battle that will decide the fate of everyone and everything they love. As Wardens and Keepers of Tan’ji, the fabled talismans of power, it is their duty to keep the world safe from those who would destroy it. But all is not as it seems. Sometimes there are too many secrets, and too many places to stumble in the dark. When one powerful Keeper and his Tan’ji are kidnapped, the Wardens have to ask who could have betrayed them. Who could have let the enemy into their stronghold? This third book in Ted Sanders’ gripping series leads the reader onto new paths, new revelations, and new mysteries in the Keepers saga, where answers only bring more questions and the secrets behind the true nature of good and evil are revealed.