MAGIC MOON by Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein
    Category:  Manga/Comics/Pop Fiction
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 6+
    Release Date:  10/3/06
    Publisher:  TokyoPop
    Reviewed by:  Carrie Spellman
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Kim is a pretty normal kid--he has a normal family, and a normal life. He’s even a pretty normal student, who would
    rather read his favorite new fantasy/adventure series than do his math homework. Until his four-year-old sister goes to
    the hospital for a standard operation, and doesn’t wake up afterwards. Now she’s in a coma, and Kim, his parents,
    and even the doctors don’t know what to do. Except that maybe there is something Kim can do.

    After being at the hospital one night, Kim is visited by a man. The man says Kim’s sister named him Themistokles, and
    it stuck. Themistokles is from Magic Moon, also named by his sister, and an evil man is holding her captive. Kim has to
    come to Magic Moon and save her, but he also has to find his own way there. How do you find a way to a magical
    place that you’ve never heard of before? Kim tries to follow Themistokles and finds a rocket ship/fighter jet parked in
    front of his house. Amazingly, Kim can fly it. It takes him right to Magic Moon. Well, almost. He crashes in the
    Shadowland. Now, Kim has to save himself, and possibly all of Magic Moon.

    Part LORD OF THE RINGS, part CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, with a little eastern philosophy thrown in, this is a
    great adventure in an amazingly well-imagined world. It’s definitely an involved story that might seem like a bit too
    much to handle, but it’s nothing to fans of THE HOBBIT and LORD OF THE RINGS.
Magic Moon
by Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein