Until the Celebration (Paperback)

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Author)
Key Phrases: bottomless lake, ancestral planet, youth hall, D'ol Falla, Axon Befal, D'ol Regle (more...)

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Product Description
When the banished Erdlings were brought from their imprisonment below ground and finally reunited with the Kindar it seemed the times of love and joy that the founders of the Green-Sky had promised would at last arrive. But unforeseen problems arose and the result was turmoil, mind pain, unjoyfulness, and a constant fear. Only Raamo held hope for the future. He was proved right, although the path to rejoining lay through surprising sacrifice.

Originally published by Atheneum in 1980, Until Celebration, a Junior Literary Guild selection, is the final book of the Green-Sky Trilogy.

About the Author
The recipient of three Newberry Honor Book awards for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, and The Witches of Worm, Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s first book was published in 1964. Since that time she has authored more than 42 books, mostly for children but also including two books for young adults, four picture books for younger children, and a book of poetry.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Backinprint.com (November 11, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595370292
• ISBN-13: 978-0595370290
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #955,980 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting finale to Snyder's great trilogy., August 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: UNTIL THE CELEBRATION (Laurel-Leaf Books) (Mass Market Paperback)

Until the Celebration is the third book in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's fantasy (SF?) trilogy about a world where people make their homes in huge trees (which begins with Below the Root, and continues with And All Between.) All our favorite characters are back, and as usual, Snyder's book gives us no easy answers to the difficult questions of life. A beautiful and disturbing book.

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Long-Winded, July 27, 2004

By	Melissa McCauley (North Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Until the Celebration (Green Sky, Book 3) (Paperback)

The list of characters at the beginning of this book should give you a hint that the book is hard to follow. The main characters from the first two books of this series, BELOW THE ROOT and AND ALL BETWEEN, are back, along with a cast of hundreds. The two girls from different cultures, Teera and Pomma, are the focus of the Rejoyning, the integrating of the Kindar and the Erdlings into one society. The girls soon find out that it is no fun to be revered as messiah figures; in fact it puts them in danger from the splinter groups on each side who want society to remain as it was before the Rejoyning.

I really wanted to love this book, like everything else that Ms. Snyder has written, but making myself finish was a grueling chore. The plot is most likely too convoluted and politically significant for children to read. It is two hundred pages of all the minutiae of council meetings and political machinations to try and integrate two societies. Instead of being written from the children's perspective like the first two books, this one is mainly told by adults and details the boring grown-up concerns, like supply distribution. None of the charm or magic of the first two books. What a yawn! Only read this if you want a detailed account of integrating two superstitious, bigoted societies.