Holiday Reading

This week, although it may have been Christmas, I still managed to read! (And not just gift tags, either) I managed to find that Seekers series by 'Erin Hunter'. Somehow or other, at around the end of 5th grade, my friend managed to get me to borrow the first book, which she owned (It was hardcover and very nice, now that I think of it) and so I read it, because it's sort of pointless to borrow someone's book and not read it. So then it left you not knowing basically anything at all, which was extremely frustrating at the time. That probably happens a lot when you take one story and break it into six books. Anyway, I read the next and the next. Then I waited for book #4 came out, because I still didn't know what would happen, and I honestly thought I could be done once I finished book four. Then I, more or less, forgot about it while waiting for this book, Seekers: Fire in the Sky to come out. How do you forget about a book you're waiting for? I don't know. So anyway, I like to scan through the 'New' books at the library and it was there. (This book came out half a year ago) And now I am waiting for what is hopefully the last book so I really can be done!
     In this book, Fire in the Sky we find our four heroes, Lusa (black bear), Kallik (white/polar bear), Toklo (grizzly/brown bear) and Ujurak (magical transforming grizzly) in what they hope is 'The Place of Everlasting Ice'. (Aka: somewhere way up in Canada, right around the arctic circle) Anyway, this Ujurak is  leading them all to save bear-kind from the 'flat-faces/no-claws/humans' which has pretty much happened since book one. So he leads them all up north and they are currently on some frozen sea. He follows 'signs' to lead them through there, but it turns out to be a very difficult journey. Kallik has to take care and hunt for everyone, Lusa is (uncontrollably) trying to hibernate, and both she and Toklo are struggling to adapt well to the ice. They are encourages by a gigantic bear, who is really a star, who is really, as they find out, Ujurak's mother. Every bear species has their own name and story about the star/bear, but she really is just his mother. Anyway, she visits them in their dreams, and encourages everyone, except Toklo, who believes that one of them will die in the journey. They still split up because Lusa is sick and Toklo is sick of the ice, but Kallik can live and Ujurak believes he should save the bears more than anything. I will not include the ending because that would spoil it, but it is fairly happy and nothing really gets done other than the fact they still aren't done with their journey. It's frustrating.

Hope everyone had a good break so far!