MacLeod Andrews gives the characters distinct voices and conveys the thrill of the chase. This volume can stand along, but the story line begins with events in the first two books. The villains are deliciously evil, making their ultimate defeat all the more urgent. They enter the rides hoping to discover clues along the way, but danger awaits them at every turn. A close friend's dream points them to the Hollywood Studios and Epcot, but a lost remote, used for getting them out of the park, takes away their ability to return to their sleeping bodies and traps them as holograms. The DHIs discover that their mentor and head Imagineer, Wayne, is being held hostage somewhere in the park. During the day, the park offers its world-famous adventures, but at night it's plagued with evil doers. When the Disney Imagineers originally developed the holograms out of real teenagers, they didn't know Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck would be able to cross over into the park when they went to sleep at night.

Gr 5-8–In Ridley Pearson's third installment (Hyperion, 2010) of the Kingdom Keepers saga, the five teenage Disney hologram guides (DHIs) are once again transported at night into Disney World to solve a crime. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. A transparent paper box, a quest for a sword, rides on Soarin' and Maelstrom, life-and-death encounters with a giant snake and a devious Maleficent lead the Kingdom Keepers not only to begin to decipher deeper meanings to the clues but to discover new truths about themselves and their ever-growing friendships. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for survival. Concerned that Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers-Disney villains, who along with other Disney characters, take over the parks when the turnstiles stop spinning and who want desperately to steer the parks to a far darker place-the five kids pick up a majorĬlue from their close friend whose dreams (nightmares, really) often accurately predict the future.Ĭlues from a dream lead the kids into Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot. With the adventures in the first books now resolved, Kingdom Keepers III: Disney in Shadow follows the five teens-Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck-as they search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer, who has mysteriously gone missing. But backfire it did: some nights when the kids go to sleep, they wake up in one of the Disney parks as a hologram.

When Disney Imagineers installed hologram guides for the Magic Kingdom using teenage models, they had no idea the technology might backfire.

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