#ted sanders
Ted Sanders’ The Keepers: The Box & the Dragonfly is on sale today! Our excellent teen reviewer Lilian took a look at the novel for us:
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The Keepers is an exciting novel written by Ted Sanders, the author of ‘No Animals We Could Name’ and many other well written stories. Starting now is the first book in the series 'The Keepers. The Box and The Dragonfly’. You find yourself living inside a world with evil giants, strange creatures, and magical objects that only you can posses,.
This book follows Horace Andrews, a twelve year old boy who seems to understand the world until he sees something - one thing, his own name written on a single sign. His confusion leads him to an underground place called “The House of Answers”. Anyone who walks into this place has to choose wisely. An object with a special ability that he/she feels the right to own carefully. It could be kept in this person’s hands for years, a few months, or even a few minutes. All these objects are called “Tanu”. Once fallen into the right hands they become this person’s “Tanji”. Horace feels a strange draw to a golden box, and after many experiments realizes it’s power - time travel. He soon possesses the power to look into the future. Danger awaits though, as groups of gigantic ten feet men go after all the Tanji trying to keep the magic to themselves. Horace does whatever he can to protect the box, and soon pairs up with another young Keeper; Chloe, a twelve year old girl who is able to walk through walls, which comes from her Tanji, a necklace with a silver dragonfly attached to it. They form a strange friendship bond walking in and out of danger, almost in the hands of the men who are after their Tanji and even the Keepers themselves.
The Keepers is a book for all ages 10+. I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves adventurous mysteries. If you do, you’ll get absorbed by this story after the first two chapters. It’s medium-paced, though there’s always something to look forward to after each chapter. You never know what’s going to happen next. The gripping story also shows that a simple mistake could lead to a total disaster. This is only the beginning to the many adventures of Horace and Chloe. I give this book 4.5 stars out of 5.
-Lilian R, 13
