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Book: Summerland
The minute you pick up this book, you’re not sure how long it will take you to read its 512 pages, but much to your surprise you’ll be able to finish it far before you predict. Summerland happens to be one of the most interesting books. It is much like a duplicate of Harry Potter, with a little boy Ethan and the weird, wonderful and wacky things going on. The inspiration of the book is Ethan, the boy who hates baseball, but he can’t stop sticking to it, just because of his father who is a big-time baseball fan.
One day Ethan begins having strange visions of bushbabies near the field and on the roadside. The creature is actually a werefox named Cutbelly, and meeting him is the beginning of Ethan’s adventure.
Ethan’s father Mr Feld, is an inventor who has come up with a material used in a portable blimp that they fly around the island. It turns out that a certain character wants to use the material to hold a substance so that he can bring about the end of the world. Once Mr Feld is kidnapped, it’s up to Ethan, his friends, and an odd assortment of characters that they meet along the way, to save the day. It’s kind of “The Lord of the Rings” meets “The Bad News Bears” with a liberal dose of random mythologies thrown in for spice.
Ethan must save his father, and the world as well, while developing his new position of catcher and dealing with an unfinished magical “bat” made from an ash wood branch taken from the great tree of the universe. There’s another link in that baseball bats are made from ash and this type of wood allegedly holds magical properties.
Baseball is a game of failure. It just all fit. In this book you get to read how a little boy like Ethan made the baseball work.
Available at Paramount Publishing Enterprise Ph: 4310030
Email: paramount@cyber.net.pk
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