Lion boy

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Youth level.
In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.

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Why to read Lion Boy submitted by emilyc-r on August 21, 2008, 12:55pm Book Review
Emily C-R
Lion Boy
Zizou Corder
Adventure/Fantasy/Mystery
Copyright 2003

Setting: Lion Boy takes place in the future. Cars are rare due to lack of oil; only the government and huge corporations have enough money to own and use them. The book starts in London, England but early on in the book Charlie boards a circus ship headed for Paris, France.

Author’s Style: The first time I read Lion Boy, I read it in only one day. Lion Boy is a long book but the end of every chapter leaves you longing for more; even the last chapter because the last chapter isn’t really the last chapter. Lion Boy is the first book in a trilogy and the story doesn’t really slow down in between the books. It is almost as if it was just one book evenly split in three parts so it wouldn’t be to long. The titles of the other books are Lion boy the Chase and Lion Boy the Truth. Lion Boy goes back and fourth between Charlie’s parents and Charlie himself.

Characters:
Charlie Ashanti, the lion boy himself
Magdalen Start, Charlie’s mom
Aneba Ashanti, Charlie’s dad
The Lions, Charlie’s lion friends
The Cats, Charlie’s cat friends
Charlie’s friends from the circus
And many more.

Plot: Charlie comes home one day only to find that his parents have disappeared so he sets out on an adventure to find them. Along the way he takes advantage of the fact that he can speak Cat. He makes friends with stray cats in the streets to large lions in the circus. By the end of the book Charlie has a pretty good idea about where his parents are and enough friends to help him find them.

Recommendation: I would recommend Lion Boy to anyone who likes adventure, mystery, and a good sense of humor. The thing I like best about the book is that the characters really seem to come alive. The book is intriguing so even if you don’t normally like adventure once you pick it up you’re not likely to set it down again until you’ve finished the last chapter; then you’ll say where’s the next one? In other words if you are a teacher don’t let this book in your classroom if you don’t want your students to read while you’re talking.