Woodwalkers
Woodwalkers is currently a six-part series of novels by Katja Brandis , which was published between 2016 and 2019 by Arena Verlag . All volumes made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list for young people. In December 2019, the author said in an interview that over 560,000 copies of the series had been sold by then.
content
The main character is Carag, a Woodwalker. Woodwalkers are people who have both a human form and an animal form and, with some practice, can switch between their forms at will. One of the highest precepts of the Woodwalkers is the secrecy of their existence from the "normal" people. Carag is a puma (or mountain lion ) converter. He grew up with his parents and sister Mia in the North American Rocky Mountains of the US state Wyoming . When he was about 11 years old, he decided to leave his family to live with the people. For this purpose he goes to the village of Jackson . There he is picked up by the authorities and taken to a foster family . She calls him Jay because he has stated that he doesn't remember anything. After a while, his skills are discovered by Clearwater High's headmistress, Lissa Clearwater, and after some discussion with his foster family, he can attend the boarding school she runs, which is specially designed for Woodwalkers.
With his classmates, especially Holly and Brandon, he has many adventures that represent the main plot of the books and build on each other to a grand finale.
More people
The foster family, the Ralstons, consists of his mother Anna, his father Donald, his brother Marlon and his sister Melody. These are not converters and also know nothing of Carag's abilities. Melody later learns that Carag is a Woodwalker after he rescued her from Andrew Milling and she recognized him as a cougar during the rescue operation.
Andrew Milling, also a Puma converter, is his first mentor and later greatest enemy.
At school, Carag shares a room with Brandon, a bison walker. His friends include Holly ( red squirrel ), Frankie ( otter ), Lou Ellwood ( elk ), Henry ( frog ), Dorian ( cat ), Shadow and Wing ( raven twins ), later also Tikaani (arctic wolf ) and the teacher James Bridger ( coyote ) .
The school is run by Lissa Clearwater ( Bald Eagle ). Other teachers include Lou's father, Isidore Ellwood ( wapiti ), Sarah Calloway ( rattlesnake ), Miss Parker ( pug ), Julian Goodfellow (triple converter: grizzly and wasp ) and Bill Brighteye ( wolf ). Julian Goodfellow even wants to kill Carag and is replaced by Carag's father.
expenditure
- Woodwalkers: Carag's transformation. 2016, ISBN 978-3-401-60196-0 .
- Woodwalkers: Dangerous Friendship. 2017, ISBN 978-3-401-60197-7 .
- Woodwalkers: Holly's Secret. 2017, ISBN 978-3-401-60198-4 .
- Woodwalkers: Alien Wilderness. 2018, ISBN 978-3-401-60199-1 .
- Woodwalkers: Enemy Tracks. 2018, ISBN 978-3-401-60380-3 .
- Woodwalkers: Vengeance Day. 2019, ISBN 978-3-401-60397-1 .
review
The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote in its feature section: "Woodwalkers is ideal, very well-written reading material for all male reading grudges and of course for girls too - funny, exciting and with a clear, not too complex plot.
Individual evidence
- ↑ buchreport.de search result "Katja Brandis". Retrieved August 27, 2020
- ↑ Hörbahn on Stage: Katja Brandis reads from “Khyona” and tells about herself and her book worlds, Part 2: Katharina Glück in conversation with Katja Brandis, accessed on January 31, 2020
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Mysterboy from November 28, 2016, accessed on March 7, 2020