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Endling #2: The First is the second book in an epic middle grade animal fantasy series by Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan, Wishtree, and Crenshaw!

To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the world—the endling—Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with each passing day.

As the group confronts untold dangers at every turn, they will ultimately uncover a treacherous plot that involves the other powerful governing species. With both her dreams and all the creatures of Nedarra on the brink of extinction, Byx and her friends are determined to never give up hope.

Soon they find themselves the unlikely leaders in a simmering rebellion that risks everything they hold dear. Byx may be the last of her kind, but will she also be the first to lead the revolution?

Beloved author Katherine Applegate concludes her “simply sublime” (Kirkus) epic middle grade animal fantasy trilogy with Endling #3: The Only. Read all three!

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8 - 12 years
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Endling
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390 pages
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Grade level

3 - 7
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7 May 2019
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"Themes of conservation, war, and human trafficking are skillfully interwoven into a world of magic and wonder. This second installment will have readers salivating for a third. Simply sublime" ― Kirkus, starred review --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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IN BOOK TWO OF KATHERINE APPLEGATE'S EPIC FANTASY ADVENTURE, BYX WILL BECOME THE FIRST TO LEAD A REVOLUTION.

Byx never expected she'd be the first.

The first of her pack to befriend a human.

The first to defy the ruler of their kingdom and live to tell the tale.

Byx always feared being the last dairne. The endling.

Now she is the first to journey into the unknown.

And the first to uncover a deadly secret.

She will become the first to change everything. BYX fears she's the last of her kind, the endling. But legend tells of a place with a hidden dairne colony. So she's on a journey into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland to find them, along with her friends:

Loyal TOBBLE,

Brave and resourceful KHARA,

Wise but deadly GAMBLER,

and RENZO the magical thief.

As the threat of war grows across the lands, they will face untold dangers at every turn. And when a treacherous plot that could bring both Byx's dreams and the creatures of their world to the brink of extinction is revealed, they may just become the unlikely leaders of a rebellion.

--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CKXQGR3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Illustrated edition (7 May 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 390 pages

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Katherine A. Applegate

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.

Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); and SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books).

She’s written two early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); and DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends).

Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, illustrated by Patricia Castelao (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); and WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends).

With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)

Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.

THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN was made into a Disney movie starring Brian Cranston, Sam Rockwell, and Angelina Jolie.

Katherine lives in California, with her family and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Pippin Properties, Inc.

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Eva Beyer

Lieferung kam wie versprochen, Buch sehr guter Zustand, bin sehr zufrieden.

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Arrived in time for my Granddaughter's birthday!! So pleased!

EEX

Decent Premise, but Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 26 January 2021

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This series unfortunately falls victim to its own genre.

Not the "fantasy" genre, but the "kid's book" genre. It's modeled for ages 8-12, which is too bad. I suppose it's because of the character types. One doesn't exactly picture a walking, talking golden retriever and a teddy bear sidekick as REAL characters... Which is too bad, because Byx and Tobble are very much full characters that could have fit into a novel not relegated to a young audience.

I think it's because of the characters and the shoehorned age group that this book suffers most. It's a children's book, but you can tell by the context that this isn't a book for children. I don't know if it's because of the editing or the actual writing; I'm tempted to believe the former, as the story is quite solid and interesting. But the execution leaves something to be desired.

Part of this is because KAA has a strict policy of not coddling people to the effects of war. This was true in Animorphs, which she noted after a controversial ending (which I don't agree with--fiction is a place to, at least in part, escape some of the harshest realities), and it's definitely true now. And this is where I don't know if the story suffers from an editing problem or not. KAA has always had morality lessons within her narrative, but in this case, the entire story grinds to a halt several times to deliver some vitally important moral nugget like "stealing is bad."

By this, the second book in the trilogy, it also becomes painfully apparent that this series needed to be much longer in terms of pages. Either that, or it needed to have several important events removed from it. While the first book had decent pacing, the second book suffers from trying to stuff way too much into a limited number of pages. It's also limited by the first-person point of view, as some of the events should be told by a different character. Furthermore, major events sort of get truncated in order to fit more events into the pages. This leads to long periods of "travel time" followed by extremely quick and unsatisfying payoff. And because there's so much happening, the event for which the series was specifically written feels lackluster and almost mundane within the sea of other major plot points.

And in the second book, a major character is introduced with no preamble and all. He's just suddenly in the story smack in the middle of the book, and I'm not sure whether I should care for him or if he's destined to die off. (More on that later.)

Speaking of the characters, I do like them. They start out with very original voice and goals, and they do pursue those goals faithfully. The problem is, their voices slowly meld together. Their quirks kind of homogenize and if one character speaks, whatever they say could almost be said by a different character. They end up with the same morals and temperaments and apart from their physical actions, they don't really feel like individuals. There's also one particular character whose actions don't make sense; he's used as a plot device to advance the story several times, then he dies.

Which brings us to character death. As I stated before, KAA has a preoccupation with the gritty realism of war. In her letter to fans post-Animorphs, she made it very clear where she stands on that front--war is bad, and the effects it has on people are long-lasting and aren't just dismissed with a Happily Ever After. While this is true, you have to walk a very fine line between realism and alienating your audience. I will maintain, and have believed since Animorphs ended, that you can both make a true statement and be completely wrong within the context that you are making it. In fiction, you can both highlight the terrors of war while giving your characters some semblance of a happy ending, especially in children's lit.

Still, I'll grudgingly accept that the end of Animorphs was reasonable, even if I don't personally agree with the execution.

The point is, she tries to do the same thing in the Endling series, but--as I previously stated--there's not enough pages in which she can do this. What she wants to do is to make us hurt for a character we've come to love. The problem is, there's too much happening, so I cannot love or even care much about the characters that die. There isn't enough time to build up their story or their personality. In one case, she gives us a character, starts to make us love him, then almost immediately kills him off as a plot device to show the protagonist and the reader Just How Bad War Is. And this could have been salvaged, since the protagonist does talk about mounting a rescue, but the characters just sort of collectively decide that, nah, they'll move on instead. It's very anti-climactic and disappointing.

To be fair, I feel like space is being left open for this character to return in a soap opera style reveal. However, the casual dismissal of his fate is (I believe) meant to evoke the horrors of your buddies dying in war. It falls flat when the characters simply care nothing about his loss. More time should have been spent on this. Again, there is a difference between storytelling in fiction and real, actual war. Don't punish your readers because you want to keep things real. You already have a talking dog and magic. Bend reality a little bit.

The reason this has three stars, and the reason I'll read the conclusion to the series, is that the story itself is fantastic. It's standard fantasy in the realm of Redwall, but it has its own unique twist and I really do care about the fate of the main characters. Despite its many frustrating shortcomings, it is well worth the read.

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LindaB

The Quest Deepens

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 19 May 2019

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Anytime there is a book with a quest, I'm in. (I re-read The Hobbit once in a while!) Yes, I finished this one and now how long might be the wait for the next adventure for brave, growing-up and now adventurous Byx and her companions, humans Khara and Renzo, catlike felivet Gambler, and the small and mighty Tobble? They have continued their journey to find the traveling island of Tarok, hoping to find more dairnes, saving Byx from being the last one of her species. The plot expands into political strife and danger in the land with the reigning dictator, the Murdano, gearing up to fight the other vicious Kazar Sg’drit, enslaving species to build his army. Connections to today's political challenges including war, prejudices of 'other', and human trafficking may go unnoticed by children, but not by adult readers. Khara is rising as a leader in the coming war and her companions, including Byx, will face the battle with her. Now we must wait for number three! Katherine Applegate's imagined world in this series is extraordinary!

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SometimesMaven

Gateway to Adventure/Fantasy genre

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 10 February 2021

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My 9-year-old, autistic, gifted son loves this series. We loved the Ivan series, so I decided to buy this one and give it a try. He LOVES it and we can't wait for the next installment. I read this to my son each night before bed and explained any vocabulary he didn't know - as well as explained when the vocabulary was a made up creature or concept, lol. This series made me and my son realize that he is super into this adventure/fantasy genre and I couldn't be more excited for him.

Applegate's writing does bring up difficult situations, such as death, which some parents may be uncomfortable with. However, it has not had a negative impact on my son and it has spurred some excellent conversations that I may not have otherwise had the opportunity to have with him while he is still young enough to be influenced by his parents over his peers.

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