Seekers #4: The Last Wilderness [Hardcover]

Erin Hunter (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The suspenseful conclusion will build in an eager audience for the next installment.” (Publishers Weekly )

Praise for the Seekers series: “Hunter creates a richly sensuous world filled with cruelty, beauty, tenderness, savagery and just enough underlying legendary background to add mystery…fans of animal fantasies will haunt the shelves for the next volume.” (Kirkus Reviews )

“These stories will be welcomed by the Warriors series’ many fans.” (ALA Booklist )

Product Description

Is this journey's end . . . or just the beginning?

Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Ujurak have finally reached the Last Great Wilderness, the legendary bear paradise they've been searching for. But while his companions think they've come to the end of their long journey, Ujurak feels a deep unrest. Is this truly where they're meant to be?

In the Last Great Wilderness, one by one the bears begin to remember their true natures. Toklo feels the urge to hunt caribou and mark his territory as a brown bear should, and Kallik feels the pull of the ice within her. It's only Lusa, happy just to be in the wild, who fears the day when her friends will leave her to follow their own paths.

As the bears adjust to this new life, disaster strikes. The friends are forced to venture into the world of the flat-faces to save the life of one of their own. Once there, the end of their journey seems farther away than ever, as a new path spreads out before them.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (February 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060871318
• ISBN-13: 978-0060871314
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #38,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wilderness, adventure, February 20, 2010

By	Reader Views "www.readerviews.com" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seekers #4: The Last Wilderness (Hardcover)

Reviewed by Ben Weldon (age 11) for Reader Views (02/10)

"Seekers #4: The Last Wilderness" by Erin Hunter is the story of four bears, Toklo, a grizzly bear; Kallik, a polar bear; Lusa, a black bear; and Ujurak, a shape-shifter whose natural shape is a grizzly cub. When Ujurak, at the time in the form of a goose, was weakened and almost killed after accidentally eating a fishhook, his friends weren't sure what to do. They eventually decided to take Ujurak to a friendly "flat-face" (human) healer who lived in a small village in the wilderness. But when more flat-faces came and took Ujurak away in a "metal bird," (airplane or helicopter) his friends tried to follow the metal bird but were too slow. Will they ever see Ujurak again?

When the four friends finally reached the final wilderness they thought they would be able to live in peace forever; little did they know how wrong they were. When Ujurak tried a new way of hunting geese by shifting into a goose, things went horribly wrong. He forgot to shift back into a bear when he was with the geese and ended up flying off with them. When he and the flock stopped to eat, he got a fishhook lodged in his throat and was at the brink of death when his friends found him and got him (in human form) to a flat-face healer. But when more flat-faces arrived and took Ujurak away, they didn't know if they would ever see him again. Will they be able to find Ujurak in the maze of flat-face dens and hubbub?

A neat bonus to the book is that there is a cool Seekers website address given that has all sorts of interesting information on the characters and the author. Erin Hunter is actually not one, but four people. They all love bears and cats and together wrote the Warriors series.

I would recommend "Seekers #4: The Last Wilderness" to people who like bears and adventure. Once you pick up this book you won't want to put it down until you finish it. The book ended on a cliff hanger, like many of Erin Hunter's books, and I can't wait for the next one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Seekers Book 4, July 25, 2010

By	Catherine Brown "Cathy" (Georgia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Seekers #4: The Last Wilderness (Hardcover)

My granddaughter reads and reads when it comes to anything written by Erin Hunter! Not too many 9 year olds read these days and I am proud that she does!

5.0 out of 5 stars Go Erin Hunter!, July 3, 2010

By	A Customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seekers #4: The Last Wilderness (Kindle Edition)

I love all of her Warriors books and Seekers. Everytime I read one of her books i cant wait till the next one. Im always looking for a new book by her i have not read. Some people may not like them because they dont know what a good book is.. I love the characters in this series. They had to go though alot losing their mom/sisters and or brothers. They had to learn how to survive in the wild all alone untill they found each other.
Brooke