  | Storm (SYLO chronicles) Author: MacHale, D. J. | |
| Price: $22.58 | ||
Summary:
Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG+ Reading Level: 4.70 Points: 18.0 Quiz: 165551 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 9-12 Reading Level: 4.70 Points: 28.0 Quiz: 64765 | |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (01/01/14)
School Library Journal (04/01/14)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (04/14)
Full Text Reviews:
Bulletin for the Center... - 04/01/2014 You can almost imagine a TV trailer: “Previously, on SYLO . . . ” with rapid-fire clips of Tucker Pierce and his posse on the lam from intra-U.S. military attacks, trying to alert the East Coast about the devious cabal that just been revealed on Pemberwick Island. This installment picks up about two heartbeats and half a breath after the close of Volume One, as the teens discover that the mainland has been virtually wiped out by the mysterious Air Force aircraft that can target people, buildings, or both at will. In light of these massive attacks, it’s no longer clear that SYLO, which wrought havoc on Pemberwick, is the villain after all, and until Tucker’s crew can get some solid indication of who the bad guys are and what this war is about, a perilous cross-country race against time will ensue. As if nonstop action isn’t enough of a draw, MacHale ramps up the interest with a sort of nod to disaster tourism, setting epic showdowns in Fenway Park (the intended site for a cryptic Gate to Hell), Fort Knox (a SYLO redoubt commanded by the kids’ Pemberwick Island nemesis), and the Venetian in Las Vegas (from which plucky survivors launch a sneak attack on the Air Force drones). Interaction among the teens is a tad cheesy, with narrator Tucker apt to carry his Rambo self-image a little too far, but that hardly matters when there are so many fast vehicles to drive, so much technology to fear, so many villains to take down, and so much to blow up along the way. Bring on Book Three. EB - Copyright 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
School Library Journal - 04/01/2014 Gr 7–10—MacHale's explosive second book in the series follows 14-year-old Tucker Pierce and company on a road trip across the country as they seek both answers and vengeance. The book begins moments after the end of SYLO, with Tucker and friends Tori, Kent, and Olivia having barely escaped from Penderwick Island only to find Portland, Maine emptied of people. They know that SYLO is a unit of the U.S. Navy and they've just discovered that the mysterious planes fighting SYLO are from the U.S. Air Force. At a hospital, the quartet meet a doctor who is able to treat Tori's gunshot wound and Jon, a young man in the transportation department. Jon has been monitoring a radio broadcast inviting survivors to a location in the Nevada desert. He joins the other four as they journey first to Boston, then to Fort Knox, and eventually to Las Vegas. Along the way, the group encounters other pockets of survivors and also meet two people that they were certain had died. Tucker learns that SYLO believes that it is fighting the Retros from the Air Force for the survival of mankind. Tucker doesn't know who to believe and even begins to suspect other members of his party. MacHale keeps readers' hearts pumping with a near-constant barrage of fight or flight scenarios and the additional anxiety of a possible traitor in the midst of the friends. Action and dystopia fans will be delighted.—Eric Norton, McMillan Memorial Lib. Wisconsin Rapids - Copyright 2014 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
