• WINNER Outstanding Children’s Fiction, IAN Book of the Year Awards
• THIRD PLACE Book of the Year Award, IAN BOTY Awards
• FINALIST Midwest Book Awards, Children’s Fiction
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• Honorable Mention Readers’ Favorite Children’s Fantasy/SCI-FI ( )

Gorgon, is a terrific middle grades book. Although I came into this story on the middle, I had no trouble keeping up with the backstory. It follows the next step in the story of Samantha and Jake who have had some time to rest from saving the world, but they haven’t quite recovered from their ordeal. Both are still affected by what happened and before they can really begin to talk about it they are thrown headlong into a new adventure that not only threatens the safety of both Earth and KiraKu, but could mean that they lose their parents. The ancient schism in KiraKu leading to so many of its residents living in our world is finally coming to a head and Samantha and Jake will find that they can only trust in each other to get to the other side of it.

I love mythology origin stories and this one has done a fabulous job explaining the explainable. The denizens of KiraKu make for a rich tapestry to set this story against. The twist and turns in the story kept my head spinning and opened the door beautifully for a new sequel. Especially fun is Samantha’s encylopedia-like knowledge of animal species. This book is a must for the nerds around your house. I also truly appreciated that the story was equal opportunity. Too often MG stories are written about and for a specific gender. A story like this will appeal to both.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ( )

I was given this ARC in return for an honest review, and although I never read book one I really enjoyed book two as I rapidly read to see how the two, teens struggle for success, and I can't wait to read the next! Samantha Green, her dad,Jake and his mom were celebrating Jake's birthday but he looked far away and unhappy. He did seem excited when their parents announced they were getting married. When he didn't even want dessert, but said they needed to talk and flew up to her room! When she assured Cynthia that she would see what troubled him, he wanted to talk about his visions, well she was having nightmares too about their previous fight with a power hungry enemy who wanted to control KiraKu. As Jack looked out her window, Charlie floated up and said to open the window quickly. Charlie had barely entered before a huge flying dragon wrecked her house seeking to take her staff from her. With their parents poisoned, they have two days to find Gordon and saved their parents by exchanging WhipEye for the cure along with finding King Kong, Boa snakes, and other Lesser that chose to leaver their world for the freedom of Earth, they must work together and mend broken trust if they wanted to save their parents.. ( )