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Two Wyoming seventh graders must track down some escaped griffins and solve who set them free from a magical zoo in this fantasy adventure series debut.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series, Tui T. Sutherland, and her sister, Kari Sutherland, comes the Menagerie series, perfect for fans of Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series and the Spiderwick Chronicles . . .
Hidden in the small town of Xanadu, Wyoming, there is a top-secret menagerie filled with mythical creatures like unicorns, dragons, and phoenixes. For centuries, Zoe Kahn's family has been responsible for keeping the Menagerie guarded from the outside world. But six griffin cubs have just escaped—and if they can't be found, the Menagerie will be shut down.
Now it's up to Zoe and her classmate Logan Wilde to get the missing cubs back. But the real mystery remains: Is someone trying to sabotage the Menagerie?
Who let the griffins out . . . and why?
Praise for The Menagerie
"This page-turning fantasy will fly off library shelves." —School Library Journal
"Full to bursting with animated fantasy creatures, this delightful story begs to be read aloud. Animal lovers will eagerly anticipate more Logan and Zoe adventures." —Booklist
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    • School Library Journal

      May 1, 2013

      Gr 5-8-A new arrival in small-town Xanadu, Wyoming, seventh-grader Logan spends more time than he'd like to thinking about his mother's mysterious disappearance. His life becomes exciting when he discovers a baby griffin under his bed. No bigger than a puppy, Squorp turns out to be an escapee from the Menagerie, a zoo filled with mythical creatures and run by his classmate Zoe and her family. Logan soon finds himself teamed up with Zoe and her merman friend, Blue, to find five other griffin runaways. As he helps track them down, the truth about his mother's secret life begins to surface. Meanwhile, members of SNAPA, the organization in charge of all menageries, will arrive soon for an inspection and if everything is not up to par the place will be shut down. Can the trio get the griffins back in time? Who really was Logan's mom? The characters are likable, unique, and well developed, and the narrative is filled with lively dialogue and humor. The creatures, including a pair of snooty unicorns and a charismatic but murderous kelpie, are delightful. The authors do a great job of creating an attention-grabbing magical world within the realistic setting. Readers who enjoy books like Brandon Mull's Fablehaven (Aladdin, 2007) will soak up the intermixing of mythological information and mystery. The first in a series, this page-turning fantasy will fly off library shelves.-Kira Moody, Whitmore Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT

      Copyright 2013 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2013
      When Logan stumbles upon a griffin cub, he learns that his quiet new town houses a secret Menagerie full of real-life mythical creatures. Logan and the animals' caretakers don't have much time to scour the town for the five remaining escaped cubs before the zoo is set for inspection. The narrative urgency and unique animals will hook readers in anticipation for book two.

      (Copyright 2013 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

    • Kirkus

      February 1, 2013
      Numerous books have successfully built on a premise of human interaction with mythical creatures, but this one is overstuffed and convoluted. When Logan and his father move to the small town of Xanadu, Wyo., he becomes involved in the search for six missing griffin cubs from the Menagerie. The action is as wild and wooly as a mammoth, with those prehistoric beasts, unicorns, mermaids and hellhounds and other creatures appearing around every corner. In the space of one day, Logan complains, "my clothes have been set on fire by a phoenix, drowned by a kelpie, rolled on by a mammoth, clawed and nibbled by griffin cubs, and drenched in kraken ink." Can he help classmate Zoe and her family save the Menagerie from being shut down by SNAPA (SuperNatural Animal Protection Agency)? Driven by the plot, the characters lack depth; the creatures provide heft, but there are too many, too conveniently introduced. Pop-culture references--The Hunger Games, the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Wheel of Fortune--feel like pandering and will date the book. One clever touch is Logan's ability to communicate with the opinionated griffin cubs. Book 2 will pick up from the last sentence of the abrupt ending: "Someone had murdered the goose who laid the golden eggs." Unfortunately, the story itself lays an egg. For a really magical book about mythical animals, readers should try The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, by Patricia McKillip (1974). (Fantasy. 9-12)

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  • ATOS Level:4.6
  • Lexile® Measure:710
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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