The Keeping Place

by Isobelle Carmody

Book Overview

When a Misfit is kidnapped, Elspeth finds she has little choice but to join the growing rebellion against the Council. Her extraordinary mental powers could tip the scales of the struggle, but Elspeth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375857702
• ISBN13: 9780375857706
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 551 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.1" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

i love this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things move way more slowly in this book than they do in the previous three, and there are some parts where you get frustorated with the little amount of action in the beggening. BUT JUST KEEP READING IT, this book gets way more intereasting as carmody winds you through Elspeth's intrieging tale. The keeping place is defenitly my favorite book in the series.

Another Great Obernewtyn

I discovered Isobel Carmody a few tears ago, and I have fallen in love with her books. Even though i had to use my allowance to buy this book from Australia, I am convinced that it is wothr every penny. (or pretty darn close)I would recomend reading the previous three books shortly before you read this because it makes many references to them. If you are like me, the other books need a little refreshing after 6 mos. In this book, Elspeth has to take over controll of Obernwetyn when Rushton mysteriously dissapears. Now, with allong with the mysterious herders stirring up trouble, Dragon lying in a coma in the healing hall, and Mathew still gone without a trace, Elspeth has to run Obernewtyn and try to find her beloved Rushton again. The Keeping Place has somewhat less action than the previous books but it's captivating all the same.

Amazing

I began these books over a year ago and i fell instantly in love with them. I think that isobel carmody is an amazing writer, and i simmply don't understand how the fourth isn't published in the US (i spent a month's worth of alowance to get it shipped from australia).The Keeping Place is the fourth book in the obernewtyn chronicles and easily the best. It follows the quest of Elspeth Gordie as she seeks to run obernewtyn and balance her personal quest to distroy the beforetime weaponmacihines. the reader will get gripped and puulled into the story. all of the characters are remarkably realistic and each has his or her own distinct personality. my biggest complaint about this book is that i finished it, and the fifth one isn't out yet. more so than even harry potter, i wish that this author would get the next book published.

From the back cover--

'Look out,' I screamed. The flying creature lashed out and I stared in horror at Rushton's bloodied arm. Maruman leapt between us in his tyger form. 'Let me go to him!' I screamed.'He is a dream but the beast is not. It comes! Wake!'After a kidnapping, Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council, using their extraordinary mind powers. But Elspeth must also seek out clues left by the long-dead seer, Kasanda, vital to her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. One clue is lost in the past, forcing Elspeth to travel the Dreamtrails, stalked by a terrifying winged beast, with the cat, Maruman, as her guide and guardian. Only there can she learn more of the Beforetime Misfits and their enemy, Govamen.Gradually Elspeth realises that her quest is intimately linked to the Misfits' refuge Overnewtyn -- its past and its future . . .

TKP-We want more!!

The Keeping place is easily the best book in this series. Its well written and leaves you wondering what will happen, nd has many of Elspeth's signs revealed. I loved the section in the building under Tor, and i think anyone who buys this will really enjoy it