A-Z Marathon! The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

Almost all books in existence begin with "the" so I pretty much had my pick.
I started rereading this series recently because I don't think that I ever read the 15th book, so . .

This book holds a special place in my heart. It's one of the first fantasy series I had ever read. I read this before Harry Potter. It is the first book to movie adaptation that I absolutely hated. It's not as bad as the Avatar the Last Airbender movie, which was based off of a cartoon, so it doesn't really count--but it's up there. And these were the books that got me interested in the fantasy genre.

This is the first in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Anyway, it's about an owl named Soren. He has a brother named Kludd, two parents, and a nest maid snake named Mrs. Plithiver. One day, Soren's just chilli', you know, and BOOM. He's falling out of the nest and another owl swoops him up! Now, Soren can't fly yet, so he's just crappin' all over the place in fear. That's all he can do.
So he gets to this place called St. Aggie's, which is a really weird and screwed up academy for orphaned owls. It gets a little creepy from there, but it's a children's book and they're owls.

Now, here are a few things you should know about this series:

• It's super repetitive. For starters, the first one or two chapters of every book basically sums up the events of the previous books. I imagine that this was helpful when the books were coming out, but when you're marathoning these books, it's really annoying.
• The cannibalism typo in the first book. Gets me every time. (cannabilism)
• The second book is not terribly exciting.
• You'll meet a character called Twilight in the first book, and he likes to make poetic battle cries.
• The author tries to be a poet.
• The author basically created a language. I didn't have anything wrong with this the first time around. Now that I'm a more intelligent reader, it's annoying. She'll just give you a word and then a page long explanation about the word. Example: "Look! It's a poihvghj!" Bob exclaimed. A poihvghj is a special type of pen that was created by Sir Bobino II. However, it was patented by Sir Gutenhimmer III. This type of pen was much like a pencil, but it was a pen. It wrote in ink, but the ink was made out of fairy milk, so it could be erased. It was only milk from pink fairies, because only pink fairy milk can be erased. A need for this pen came around when Gurgodonner (Gurgodonner is a country in Australia. The population is 5000, and it is a democratic monarchy. It has been a country for only 43 years. It is 789 square miles and has very sunny winters and cold summers) accidently misspelled something in their constitution, and they were far too lazy to rewrite the entire thing. So, Sir Bobino II was hired for 400 parniwells (a parniwell is the currency of Gurgodonner; it is the equivalent to a US dollar. A parnimen is the equivalent to a US penny. A parniwillow is the equivalent to a US dime. There is no equivalent to a US nickel, but the parnimono is the equivalent to a US quarter) to somehow erase the misspelled word. Bobino failed, and his failure inspired him to create a pen whose ink could be erased. It took him 20 long moops, (a moop is equivalent to one year. A mooppette is equivalent to a month. A mooppeetto is equivalent to one day) but he persevered.
• If you hate when an author tells you instead of showing you, don't read this series.
• If you can't overlook out of character actions, plot holes, and everything else I've talked about above, don't read this book.

I actually liked the concept of this book and this series, and I recommend it to younger readers in particular.