Children Of The Plains

A family of 2 kids named Nianka (girl) and Amero(boy), 1 baby, and 2 parents go through the plains of a land called The Savanna as nomads. When they find a spot to camp out for the night, they are suddenly surrounded by white beasts called yevis. They are so fast that they take the two parents and the baby, leaving the two children left to run for their lives. Both of them were able to escape but got seperated from each other in the process.

The boy, Amero, is saved by a man named Duranix who scorches the yevi into firey bits. Duranix is a mysterious yet friendly man who guides Amero to a cave behind a beautiful waterfall. Beside the lake that is under the waterfall is a village. What Amero does not know was that Duranix is a dragon who could take the form of a human...As Amero grows older living in the village, he creates many ingeneous inventions. One of these is an elevator which uses a rope to pull himself up from the village to the cave behind the waterfall.

The girl, Nianka, tries to find her mother's people in search of relatives who might aid her. As she travels the big continent of Ansalon, she battles with snobby elves, hides from enemies, and even forms her own nomad army. Her side of the story is violent but

This book is under the genre of Fantasy because there are no such things as "Yevis" and dragons. There is also no such land called "Ansalon". If shapeshifting was possible, I would like to learn it and turn into a dragon. Then I would be able to fly to countries and not pay for an airplane ticket.

I really liked this book. Once you pick it up and read even a few pages of it, you get hooked. I couldn't stop reading it. The author explains the details and suspense in this book so well that you can visualize it in your head as you read it. This book is also unique in that it shows two different points of view with each chapter, Amero's view, and Nianka's view. Even though Children of the Plains is a long book, and may take a long time to read, it is worth it. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys books with suspense, war, or dragons.

Title:Children of the Plains
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0-7869-1391-6

Thompson, Paul, and Tonya Cook. Children of the Plains. United States: St. Matin's Press, 2000

-Christian Manning