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| The Quest Begins (Seekers, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Erin Hunter
Creator: Gary Chalk
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 10429
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0060871229
EAN: 9780060871222
ASIN: 0060871229
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
Three bears . . . one destiny From the author of the nationally bestselling Warriors books comes a brand-new animal fantasy series. Three young bears from different species—black, polar, and grizzly—are separated from their families when they are just young cubs. They find themselves brought together on a perilous journey. Fate is about to change all these bears lives forever, setting their paws on a path toward a future they cannot yet imagine . . .
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 Too much pain and loss June 2, 2008
19 out of 29 found this review helpful
My 9 yr old daughter has been avidly reading the Warrior series ( she has read them all so far) and couldn't wait to start Seekers. Unfortunately she has decided not to finish the book she received a couple days ago. She has been unconsolable, crying herself to sleep at night with the pain and loss that the characters (young bears) in the story have suffered. There isn't enough positive to balance out the pain of the loss. I understand it may come in the following books, but it seems quite relentless and brutal. I read the chapters pertaining to the young female polar bear and felt overwhelmed by her losses and disappointments. It was really depressing. I have suggested to my daughter that the following books may have a more positive tone since the first is probably just setting up the reason for the search/quest(?), and that she may want to read it later with the knowledge of their progress. We are still hopefull, but terribly disappointed. Both the writing and the topic are fantastic, just too harsh...
 Great first book! June 2, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am 12 years old and I love this book! It is exciting and is as good as Warriors.
Seekers, the new series by Erin June 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading this book. I've been reading Warriors since I was barely eight years old, and long since have the Erins been my favorite authors. I had mixed feelings when I heard about Seekers, though. Bears? Seekers? What is it about? Will it affect Warriors? And a *fourth* Erin?
But I wasn't disappointed with this! The characters are richly drawn out, first with Kallik, a gentle, playful polarbear cub surviving the harsh arctic with her mother and brother. Then Lusa, a young and loving black bear cub living where she was born, in a zoo's Bear Bowl (she longs for the wild). Finally there's Toklo, a grizzly bear cub (who reminds me alot of Jaypaw from Warriors)who just wishes his mother, Oka, would pay more attention to him and less to his sickly brother Tobi.
I liked how the chapters would switch from Kallik, Lusa, and Toklo, leaving you always wondering what's going to happen next to each of them. And Tui Sutherland does a good job of making it sound 'Erin.'
This was a good beginning for the start of an epic quest, not to disappoint it's fans in the future!
The plot was good with not alot of filler (hardly any), and like I said before all the characters are wonderful. My only regret is how sad the book was. Kallik loses her mother and brother, then gets taken in by another she-bear, Nanuk, only to lose her, too. Lusa almost loses her mother Ashia. And, just as sad as Kallik's loss, Toklo's sickly brother dies and his mother abandons him, soon to regret it and to be only reunited in death.
So it was sad, but with its better parts. If you love Warriors like me then you will love Seekers, too. Even if you aren't one of Erin's fans (yet), you should try it!
 Utter disappointment June 19, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Avni Gupta (age 15) for Reader Views (6/08)
When I first saw the cover of "Seekers #1: The Quest Begins," I was extremely excited to start reading. Then I saw that it was by Erin Hunter, and that got me even more excited. I had read all of her books in the Warrior series and loved them, so I thought that this book would live up to the others. I could not have been more wrong.
In the first chapter, this book had already lost my attention. There was nothing interesting going on here! In the middle of the fifth chapter, I felt my eyes drooping. It was a first. A book had made me almost go to sleep. This didn't even happen when I read "Pride and Prejudice," a book that I found incredibly boring.
The only saving grace in this book is the cover. It is unbelievably cute, and has bears on it. What could be better? I guess that I have learnt my lesson about judging a book by its cover. I am never going to do that again!
If you really do want to read this book though (all of you "Pride and Prejudice" readers, listen up!), I have a few suggestions as to how to get through it without falling asleep like me. First of all, make sure that this is the only book that you are reading at the time. I was reading a few at the same time and my thoughts were always going out to my other books and how much more interesting they were than what I was reading. Another suggestion that I have is to not have any other thing that you could possibly do instead of reading. I had a few finals that I could study for, and so, for the first time in my life, I studied instead of reading a book.
All in all, I feel like "Seekers #1: The Quest Begins," by Erin Hunter is a waste of time and should not be read unless you know that you love bears and have to read everything written about them. If you just like the cover, however, I suggest printing out a picture of some bears and sticking it onto a notebook and writing your own story about bears. I learned one thing while reading this book and that was to never ever judge a book by its cover because that will end up biting you in the butt.
A promising start... June 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Erin Hunter has done it again.
I am a huge fan of her Warriors series, pre-ordering most of them, etc. She (or they!) is an exceptional writer. I had high hopes for her new series, Seekers, though I wasn't sure what to expect when I started to read the first book.
Many people who have read this book note the losses and the pain of the main characters. I agree, the losses are intense and can be a bit harsh, but they are balanced out by the excitement that they bring. I turned the pages eagerly as I read, drinking in the emotions and fear.
This book was not up-to-par with Warriors. I could not relate to many of the bears, the storyline was not as fantastic, and the author(s) is apparently so used to writing about cats that she makes a few mistakes, such as when one of the bears gets angry, it "bristles" as cats do (this made me laugh); as far as I know, bears don't really bristle. But she had obviously researched bears decently, and the book, for the most part, was very well-written.
If you are a fan of the Warriors series, I recommend this book and applaud Erin Hunter on her new idea. "The Quest Begins" marks a very promising start, and let's hope that she can keep it up!
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