{"id":4337,"date":"2016-12-22T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:04:45","slug":"here-there-be-dragons-by-james-a-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/here-there-be-dragons-by-james-a-owen","title":{"rendered":"Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/heretherebe.jpg\" alt=\"Here There Be Dragons\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/heretherebe.jpg 250w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/heretherebe-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Geared for young adult readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fpH3Cu\"><em>Here, There Be Dragons<\/em><\/a> is an excellent read for anyone who is a fan of Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. Literary allusions abound, and part of my enjoyment came from the way Owen connected various classic works with his plot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here, There Be Dragons<\/em> is for a more literate teen reader, someone who prefers authors like Tolkien, Lewis, Austen, Alcott rather than series like the Twilight saga or <em>The Hunger Games<\/em>. Not that readers of those books won&#8217;t like it, but it moves at a slower pace and the pleasure comes from a deeper place intellectually.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fpH3Cu\">Here, There Be Dragons<\/a><\/em> by James A. Owen<br \/>\nSimon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006<br \/>\nPrint length: 336 pages<\/p>\n<p>[Notes this review was first posted on Goodreads in October 2010 and was reposted at One Catholic Life in December of 2016.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geared for young adult readers, Here, There Be Dragons is an excellent read for anyone who is a fan of Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. Literary allusions abound, and part of my enjoyment came from the way Owen connected various classic works with his plot. Here, There Be Dragons is for a more literate teen reader, someone who prefers authors like Tolkien, Lewis, Austen, Alcott rather than series like the Twilight saga or The Hunger Games. Not that readers of those books won&#8217;t like it, but it moves at&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Here, There Be Dragons by James A. 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