Soren, a barn owl who discovers a great evil in the owl kingdom which he must work to vanquish. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued by representatives from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, a clever female elf owl named Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually a training camp where the school's leader is grooming young owls to help achieve her goal, which threatens the lives of owls everywhere. First Soren and Gylfie must escape. Then they embark on a long and perilous journey to find a way to save all owls from the danger that lurks at St. Aggie's.✨ The book is a nice stepping-stone between first readers and young-adult fiction in reading difficulty, as well as in plot complexity and concepts. There are some pretty serious ideas in this story, but they are introduced with minimum of fuss so I don't think kids will be disturbed. Rather, it seems like a great way for kids to start thinking about ideas like good vs. evil, overcoming fear, loyalty and even death.

There is a little owl named soren. He lives with his parents names Noctus and Mrs. Plithiver. The plot changes when soren is captured and taken to a creepy owl orphanage. Then the plot changes again when he meets a friend called gylfie and gylfie and soren help each other escape the evil orphanage. They need to travel through swamps deserts forests and other terrain. Soren also learns how to fly because of getting powers from the great tree of ga'hoole. I think that soren and gylfie are brave and strong. This book had a lot going on and it was suspenseful. I recommend this book to people who like exciting books. I loved this book so much. Definately in my top 3 favorite books.

I loved reading these books throughout late elementary and middle school! I loved owls so reading about them in a fictional sense was great! The main character learns to overcome any issue he faces accompanied by a group of companions. It has a lot of action which I really like.

„Легенда за Пазителите: Совите от Га`хуул” (изд. „Пергамент прес”) на Катрин Ласки е очарователна поредица за деца и младежи, чиито пернати герои бързо се превърнаха в мои любимци. Легендарно тайно общество от сови-рицари, шепа отдадени млади герои, твърдо решени да защитават мира, справедливостта и свободата с цената на всичко... Епичен сблъсък между добро и зло, в който грабливите нощни птици ще ви убедят, че съвсем не е нужно да яздиш кон и да размахваш меч, за да бъдеш главен герой във фентъзи роман. Поредицата „Легенда за Пазителите” е далечен наследник на приказките за животни и достоен съперник на множество от съвременните детско-юношески фентъзи саги. Прочетете ревюто на "Книжни Криле":
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Loved it! Actually read to 12 or something like that... Read it to my older two boys when they were younger...

it was a great book. a lot of twists and turns and it always kept you on the edge of your seat

yep great series.

Read this book when I was younger (maybe third grade) and loved it, I read it as a whole book rather than individual separate books but the whole story was still together and I loved it. It definitely intrigued me to befriend owls and look more into them but overall I loved the story and character relationships

I found these at a yard sale and remembered that the movie had looked pretty cool. Something about warrior owls seemed perfectly suited to my 4th-grader, who loves animals but also superheroes. This series got him to finally jump from 1- and 2-AR-point books (AR-wise) to these 6-8-pointers. We've finally got him past Captain Underpants! I bought the rest of the series for him for Christmas. Now he can't wait for reading time at school, and he (sometimes we) falls asleep listening to the audiobooks. (Speaking of, the English narrator is great--until she does character voices, and then she's ear-splittingly high pitched or ridiculously low in voices better suited for copycatting or playground mocking.)

Lansky does so well at world building. Ga'hoole is Camelot for owls, with legends, traditions, theology, and etiquette. It's a world you don't quite leave when the book is closed. We have incorporated owl swears into our daily life. My son says his dream now is to build a Great Ga'hoole Tree playground. And owls have moved up just behind penguins in his favorite animal rankings.

One word of caution: It's violent and often dark (think Watership Down, not Velveteen Rabbit), with sociopath owls, cannibalism, violent deaths, and disturbing little details like a tongue being ripped out. It's like the Hogwarts familiars dividing into Axis and Allies. But good always defeats evil, and there's no shortage of good owls.

I would've been so into these books if they'd come out 15 years earlier. As it is, I'm pretty into them anyway.

A great book. Had me on my toes the whole time. I cannot wait to continue the series.

This was a hard book to rate. On one hand it has a very unique idea, and upon finishing this book my knowledge of owls has greatly increased. On the other hand the story just wasn't that interesting. I feel this tale is too dark for the age group it is recommended for. It paints a perfect picture of communism. Think 1984, then add owls and cannibalism.

Oh dear. I do not wish to hurt the author's feelings... but these are oddly without charm. Richard Adam's Watership Down delighted me as a child even though I did not understand the political overtones--rich with accurate details of natural history from R.M. Lockley's work--the rabbits did things no rabbit would do, and yet it hung together. The talking animals in Narnia are charming and work well--they are people, with occasional critter traits woven in to amuse.

But *these* books... Oh dear. The writing needs a good edit. The natural history details do not work to make the world "real" because the mix of natural and unnatural is so utterly inconsistent. Clumsy, ugly words are invented for no reason. The owls' motivation and behavior is bizarre. The situations that arise are simply unpleasant to read about. I suppose they might be a

ppealing if someone had a sort of sado-masochistic owl fetish. The books are very hard to get through... "suspense" is created not by a carefully crafted plot, but simply by failing to develop the plot in a logical manner. My son, who is six, seems to tolerate them as bedtime reading. But they did not charm him as the Narnia books and "The Hobbit" did. I do not understand why any writer would choose to torment owls in this way.