• Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book Five

  • The Shattering
  • By: Kathryn Lasky
  • Narrated by: Pamela Garelick
  • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (417 ratings)

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Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book Five

By: Kathryn Lasky
Narrated by: Pamela Garelick
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Publisher's summary

In the midst of war, Soren's sister, Eglantine, unwittingly becomes a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones, a group of evil owls. She is brainwashed by an owl sent by the Pure Ones to infiltrate the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Her odd behavior eventually attracts attention, and Soren and his friends vow to find out what's wrong with Eglantine. They ultimately learn what happened and help her reverse the effects of the brainwashing. Kludd continues to battle against the Guardians of Ga'Hoole for control of their tree. In the end, Kludd and his forces are defeated, but his conflict with Soren is not yet over.
©2004 Kathryn Lasky (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"The fantasy's strong believability and fascinating plot make this series a must-read for fantasy-lovers." ( Children's Literature)
"Suspenseful and full of unexpected twists and turns....sure to please listeners." ( Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Review)

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The Guardian Series is Excellent!

My eight-year old and I listened to the first eight Guardians of Ga'Hoole books and enjoyed them all immensely. Being a bird lover, these tales are especially fun and for weeks on end, our world became the world of the Guardians. Pamela Garelick's narration is very good; only her voice for Gyflie was a bit annoying (the voice was very high) though I got used to it. Unfortunately, the next seven books have not yet been recorded so we're reading them ourselves!

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Amazing book

I really like this book it has a good vibe and fun to listen to I recommend kids 8 and up to listen but I think audible needs to reales the last three books

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Great!

I love the story eglantine and primrose are best friends and the start primrose wakes eglantine up because she thinks she’s having a nightmare

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It’s weird

I don’t like it because it’s about egletien not soron
So kind of dumb so it’s not 5 stars so it is kind of bad

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8 year old: “I would give it a million stars”

My kids loved it! I am starting book #6 right now.
One of my kids said “I would give it a million stars “

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Eglantine got the spotlight, loved it

Loved how Eglantine got the spotlight and developed as a character in this book. The stakes were high and there was lots of excitement. The narrator really brings out the personalities of each character.

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The guardians of Ga’Hoole deserve a better narrator!

I love this series and I just realized we had the all the books included in our membership and I got really excited so I downloaded all of them and I got really disappointed because the narrator was sooooooo awful. The voices are either too deep or too high and it’s just not worth your time you should read the books Instead and PLEASE don’t sing the songs it’s so awful!!!!!!

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Danger everywhere.

This book is more from the point of view of Eglantine and Primrose, and how they are being used by the Pure Ones. Not my favorite of the series but still good. I look forward to listening to more as the plot gets more intense and dangerous for the Guardians. I tend to look up all the different breeds of birds that are mentioned in the story, gives me more of a perspective of the story. Narrator is good, I usually can tell who is who, just by her voices.

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Things are getting crazy

The narrator has amazing interpretations of these characters, and it seems things about to get serious.

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Be advised, this series is Not for kids!

There is way too much violence in this series for kids!!! Audible please remove this series from the heading of Childrens books.

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