Lost and Found (Remnants, Book 10) [Paperback]

K.A. Applegate (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Remnants

The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

It’s been 90 days since the Remnants broke the Big Compromise, turning Mother from her course. Now they’ve arrived at the place they called home...500 years ago. But a lot can change in five centuries. Earth has been transformed into a wasteland of ash and debris. And if that isn’t bad enough, while the rest of the Remnants pull together to survive, Yago is slowly pulling away --- concocting a plan to rise to power. With only 13 Remnants remaining, failure could mean the end of the human race...

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590884948
• ISBN-13: 978-0590884945
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #907,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Applegate's many books include the Roscoe Riley Rules chapter book series, the picture book The Buffalo Storm, and the award-winning novel Home of the Brave. With her husband, Michael Grant, she wrote the hugely popular series Animorphs, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

Katherine was inspired to write The One and Only Ivan after reading about the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, the Shopping Mall Gorilla. The real Ivan lived alone in a tiny cage for twenty-seven years at a shopping mall before being moved to Zoo Atlanta after a public outcry. He is now a beloved celebrity at the zoo, which houses the nation's largest collection of western lowland gorillas. Ivan is well known for his paintings, which he "signs" with a thumb-print.

Katherine lives in California with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars The turning point in the series, January 22, 2004

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Seth Leggett (Sacramento, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lost and Found (Remnants, Book 10) (Paperback)

Lost and found, more than any other Remnants book, is a huge turning point in the series. After eight books spent on Mother, the Remnants finally arrive back home on Earth. Only it's not quite what they expected, hoped for, or even wanted.

This is also perhaps the weakest, and darkest, book in the series. The Earth the Remnants discover is a complete wasteland. How are they going to survive without the ship? The Troika are still working against them, and the Remnants faith in Jobs is weakening.

We get a final inner-thought process look at all our characters for the last time as the descend down to Earth, making this the most character development we've seen thus far in the series. But our characters still seem two-dimensional, and the story is narrowing down - along with the cast of characters - so that all we are left with by the end of the book is a desperate situation with a bunch of characters we only half care about. By this point we're just curious about what's going to happen, and of course, as always, who'll survive - or more appropiately, die next.

This book also has the distinction of being the only one divided into two parts: Part one - the ship, and Part two - planet earth.
It is also the shortest book at 134 pages long, and, despite the information posted everywhere, was published in December of 2002, not January of 2003. I bought the book before 2003, so I know.

All in all, I would only read this book as part of the series. Reading it by itself. . . sadly, it falls short of the mark as a stand alone. But for me, it was an interesting page turner. But, then again, I'm a very devoted fan of the series.

Prognosis: must for Remnants fans, not for all those other guys.