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MIchael Liddle: Search for the Bastion
MIchael Liddle: Search for the Bastion
MIchael Liddle: Search for the Bastion
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MIchael Liddle: Search for the Bastion

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Michael Liddle wants to yank the hair right out of his head!

It’s bad enough that he and Alowyn, the Tylani princess, are included in the Ideema prophecy. Now the Procifi are naming him the “Arribahur”—“the one who opens the bridge” to their home world. All Michael and Alowyn know is that they are expected to find the “Gift of the Ideema,” a device that will save the worlds of the Tylani. It’s a lot of pressure for a seventh-grader.

In the last year alone, Michael has discovered that he’s not human, that in fact he was born more than 20,000 years ago, a child of an alien race called the Uhala, a people who along with his birth parents were annihilated by the Elhadra, an ominous galactic empire. But most amazing of all is the ability given to him to portal anywhere in the galaxy! It’s a lot to take in.

But there’s more: now the Elhadra is threatening the Tylani worlds—and worst of all, they know about Michael.

When Michael is told there’s another Uhala on Earth, he vows to find him or her. With the help of his mentor, Mr. Gooden—and a little bit of alien technology—they begin their hunt. But Michael finds himself searching for more than the Uhala: for a strange “Bastion” which will lead him to the Procifi bridge, for a way out of terrifying dangers, and for the Ideema Gift itself. Along the way, he encounters enough mysterious creatures—good, bad, ugly, and sometimes downright hideous—to stretch his imagination to its limits.

But it’s possible that the strangest creatures of all are the ones right in front of him: girls. There’s Alowyn, with her hot-then-cold moodiness; there’s Kate Robbins, whose wish to get closer to him is both alluring and alarming; and then there’s Maddy Ellis, whose friendship raises feelings in Michael even he doesn’t understand. Throw in the fact that he has to keep his true identity a secret from almost everyone on Earth, and you’ve got the recipe for one very tumultuous school year.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherR. D. Blake
Release dateApr 18, 2016
ISBN9780987982612
MIchael Liddle: Search for the Bastion
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R. D. Blake

R.D. Blake recently retired from a successful accounting and business career. Even as a child, he had an interest in science in general and space in particular and loved reading science fiction. As a parent, he enjoyed entertaining his young children with inane and wild stories he would make up on the spot. And now he is turning that interest and talent toward a larger audience. He currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario Canada.

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