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Please join us in welcoming author Jonathan Rogers on March 25

By Nancy Arant on March 17, 2009 2:02 PM | | Comments (1)
The Hyde Library welcomes author Jonathan Rogers to our campus on Wednesday, March 25. He’ll speak in chapel and then sign copies of his books at 10:45 a.m. and during both upper and lower school lunch periods in the Wunderlich Auditorium.  Rogers is the author of  the Wilderking fantasy trilogy, and his books have been compared to C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia.  He has also written about C.S. Lewis in his book titled The World According to Narnia.
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Jonathan Rogers spent his childhood in the swamps of Georgia, which gave him the material he used in his Wilderking trilogy. He received his undergraduate degree from Furman University and earned a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. 
 
His Wilderking trilogy includes The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking.  The main character is Aidan Errolson, a boy who finds out it is his destiny to become the wilderking of Corenwald.  The Wilderking was prophesied to be a wild man who would come from the swamps to set things right in the island kingdom.  Rogers based his trilogy on the Biblical story of King David. 
 
For more information on Jonathan Rogers and his fantasy world, check out his website (http://www.wilderking.com/) and his blog (http://wilderking.blogspot.com/)
 
 
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Top 5 Fantasy series

February 20, 2007 3:05 PM | | Comments (1)
Did you know that fantasy is currently the most popular genre among young adults?  Circulation records show that MUS is no exception to this trend.  Here are the top 5 fantasy series checked out by MUS students so far during the 2006-2007 academic year: 5.  The Obsidian trilogy by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory (includes The Outstretched Shadow, To Light a Candle, & When Darkness Falls) 4.  The Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini (includes Eragon & Eldest) 3.  The Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan (includes The Ruins of Gorlan and The Burning Bridge) 2.  The Bartimaeus triology by Jonathan Stroud (inlcudes The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, and Ptolemy's Gate. 1.  The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (most recent title is Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony) If you've worked your ways through all these, try a new series we've just added:  The Half-blood Chronicles by Andre Norton (Elvenbane, Elvenblood, & Elvenborn)
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