The Lost Compass
By Joel Ross
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In the high-stakes sequel to the acclaimed The Fog Diver—which was named a Texas Bluebonnet selection and winner of the 2015 Cybils Award for Speculative Fiction and the Michigan Library Association’s 2016 YouPer Award—thirteen-year-old Chess and his crew must stop the deadly and mysterious Fog from enveloping the city of Port Oro and destroying their world.
Chess and his crew—Hazel, Swedish, Loretta, and Bea—may have escaped the slums, but they cannot escape the Fog that threatens to swallow the entire mountaintop city of Port Oro. Only one thing can stop the Fog: an ancient machine known as the Compass. And only one person can find it: Chess. With the help of his crew, Chess faces dangerous encounters and deadly driftsharks to unearth the hidden instrument. It’s a race against time to save this sanctuary in the sky.
With adventure at every turn, peril behind every corner, and a few determined slum kids who must save the day, Joel Ross presents a fantastic world in this fast-paced follow-up to The Fog Diver.
Joel Ross
Joel Ross is the author of The Fog Diver, which received the Cybils Award and the YouPer Award from the Michigan Library Association and was named to the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. He is also the author of The Lost Compass as well as two World War II thrillers for adults (Double Cross Blind and White Flag Down). He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Lee Nichols, who is also a full-time writer, and their son, Ben, who is a full-time kid. To find out more information, go to www.fogdiver.com.
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Reviews for The Lost Compass
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked this sequel as much as the first book. Satisfying read that completes the story loop but is open for other adventures.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chess and his crew have escaped the slums, but that doesn't mean that they are out of danger in Port Oro. The fog is threatening to consume the rest of their small world, and Lord Kodoc is determined to use Chess for his own purposes. In Port Oro, Chess is recruited to help search for the one thing that can stop the fog's progression: an ancient machine called the Compass that only Chess with his fog eye can find. As Chess fights off Lord Kodoc, driftsharks, ticktocks, and does everything he can to keep his friends save, he discovers a surprising answer to how to claim the world back from the fog and to start a new world not consumed by the fog.
This exciting sequel has plenty of science, air battles, and fog dives to continue captivating the audience. With the world developed in the first book, this book has more room for action and suspense as Chess races against time to find the Compass before Kodoc does. Readers will continue to enjoy the subtle references to our world that Chess finds in his history books or while he is diving through the fog. The exposition in the beginning is a little too much for people who have just read the first book, but once the book gets going readers will enjoy this smart science fiction story with an ending that leave the readers both thrilled and satisfied with how Ross handled the story and characters.