emiged's review against another edition
4.0
Sky Jumpers: The Forbidden Flats, a Whitney Award finalist this year in the middle grade category, is a worthy sequel to the initial Sky Jumpers novel, a Whitney Award finalist last year.
A massive earthquake has shifted the geological formations around White Rock, releasing a gas that, though not toxic in itself, bonds to the deadly Bomb's Breath - the residual from the green bombs that destroyed the world in the war. The band of poisonous gas starts dropping, just a few inches a day at first but at an accelerating rate. Once again, twelve-year-old Hope has to use her talents, courage, and willingness to take huge risks in order to save her hometown.
The Forbidden Flats effectively expands the world that Peggy Eddleman started to build in Sky Jumpers. As Hope and other citizens of White Rock travel further afield in search of the antidote to the falling Bomb's Breath, they interact with survivors in other settlements and discover new inventions, new perspectives, and new friends. And Hope is able to learn more about her birth family as well.
As with the first book in the series, messages about the importance of appreciating different strengths and using your own talents and gifts to the best of your ability shine through. "What this world needs is people to invent, and people to discover." Neither ability is pre-eminent; both are needed.
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A massive earthquake has shifted the geological formations around White Rock, releasing a gas that, though not toxic in itself, bonds to the deadly Bomb's Breath - the residual from the green bombs that destroyed the world in the war. The band of poisonous gas starts dropping, just a few inches a day at first but at an accelerating rate. Once again, twelve-year-old Hope has to use her talents, courage, and willingness to take huge risks in order to save her hometown.
The Forbidden Flats effectively expands the world that Peggy Eddleman started to build in Sky Jumpers. As Hope and other citizens of White Rock travel further afield in search of the antidote to the falling Bomb's Breath, they interact with survivors in other settlements and discover new inventions, new perspectives, and new friends. And Hope is able to learn more about her birth family as well.
As with the first book in the series, messages about the importance of appreciating different strengths and using your own talents and gifts to the best of your ability shine through. "What this world needs is people to invent, and people to discover." Neither ability is pre-eminent; both are needed.
To read the rest of this review, visit Build Enough Bookshelves.
ghumpherys's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this second story of the Sky Jumpers series, although I think I liked the first one a little better. I found a few parts to not hold my interest so much, but I did think the author did a good job of making the circumstances of the story seem fairly realistic. A great middle-grade dystopian story!
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(I figured that the kids would end up on their own for much of the story and was curious to see how she would make this believable).unseenwizzzard's review against another edition
4.0
This was a fun sequel to Sky Jumpers. I enjoyed reading about Hope and her friends going on another White Rock saving adventure. One problem I had with it was the pacing: Eddleman seemed to spend a lot of time on what seemed to be a background problem and not as much on the problem that the book was focusing on and the resolution was much too short and anti-climactic. I did enjoy the story, though, and maybe the secondary problem is a build up to the next book.
elephant's review
5.0
More action and adventure and some chemistry and geology fill this second book in the series. Once again, it is up to 12 year old Hope and her friends to brave the Bomb's Breath to save their town. When an earthquake releases gasses into the atmosphere, the deadly Bomb's Breath begins to lower over their town of White Rock and if they can't get a cure and bring it back in time, the town will become uninhabitable. Awesome story!
zenaparks's review
5.0
Peggy did it again -- 2nd books can be so hard, and not live up to the brilliance of the first, and while this is definitely a 2nd book in that it needs to be read after the first, it is every bit as spectacular as the first. I loved revisiting Hope and her friends.
Oh, and I love love love that Hope has supporting parents. Both alive and well and full of faith in the ability of their very brave daughter.
Oh, and I love love love that Hope has supporting parents. Both alive and well and full of faith in the ability of their very brave daughter.
1tolkienfan's review
4.0
The awe factor of the world building was a bit worn off by the second book. However i enjoyed the science influence and the way the author weaved in the coming of age portions.
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