"Stormchaser"
By: Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
 

This is a Fantasy story taking place at "The Edge." This is the second book in the series about Twig. In the first book, Twig discovers that his father is a "Sky Pirate." His father, Cloud Wolf, is in search of storm-phrax, which is found at the heart of a storm. Storm-phrax is a crystal that can be used to weigh down the floating city Santaphrax, and keep it from flying away. Storm-phrax is not only used for that reason, though. It is said that if the crystal is crushed to dust, it has the power to clean dirty water, and make it safe for drinking.

While in search of a storm, Cloud Wolf's flying ship, the Stormchaser gets caught in a storm, and falls out of the sky. Twig escapes the ship, but his father goes down with the ship. Twigs parawings take him directly to the twilight woods, the forest that robs you of your mind. Twig has to find his way out, and fulfill his dad's quest by finding the storm-phrax before it's too late, and the flying city Santaphrax floats away.

I highly recommend this book to kids ages 9-14. Stormchaser is the most original story I have ever read. It is filled with awesome line-drawings. I'm sure you will never read a story like this one.

Andy Wiggins
6th Grade