Chosen

From Wikipedia Chosen was written by Ted Dekker and was released on December 15, 2007. It is the first young adult novel in the new Lost Book series. These new novels span the fifteen-year period that is gapped in the Circle Trilogy's Black and Red. Thomas Hunter is still the commander of the Forest Guard when these stories occur. Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal are selected by Thomas Hunter to be the new leaders of the Forest Guard. Johnis is divided from the other three members, and stumbles upon the legendary Roush. The Roush give Johnis, and the other three members of his party, a new task. He must find the seven missing Books of History. Johnis discovers that he was chosen by Elyon to find and complete the prophecy that a boy will find the Books. This task begins the Lost Books series. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon From Booklist The first in aYA extension of Dekkers best-selling Circle series for adults,marketed primarily toChristian audiences, this briskly pacedadventurestarts with a football game. The game will select four new leaders from among teens who have just joined the Forest Guard to fight against the Hordedisfigured beings created when people fail to bathe regularly in sacred lake waters. Rejected for service, Johnis takes the ball over the finish line anyway, making him one of the four who are sent on a quest. Along the way, the teen learns he can communicate with mythical creatures and stumbles upon a mission of even greater urgency.Thistitles publisher is best known for its Christian-interest titles, butwhilesome readers may perceive subtexts in the teens monotheistic religion and in the plotselemental clash between good and evil, Dekkersinventive approach to these themes will appeal to genre readers of many faiths. Grades 7-10. --Diana Tixier Herald