The Kingdom Keepers
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The Kingdom Keepers is a fantasy thriller novel written for young readers by Ridley Pearson and published in 2005 by Disney Editions.
Synopsis
The book is set in and around the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, with most of the events taking place inside the Magic Kingdom Park. The story is told in third person limited omniscient style with 14-year-old Finn Whitman as the central character. He and four other teenagers were selected before the beginning of the novel to be models for a new holographic technology invented by Walt Disney Imagineering. DHI, which stands for both Daylight Hologram Imaging and Disney Host Interactive, refers to these five lifelike hologram projections of the teens which act as tour guides in the Magic Kingdom.
One night, and many more after, the kids find themselves appearing in the park in the middle of the night in the form of their DHIs while they are asleep. Herein they discover that the park comes to life after hours, and a senior cast member named Wayne explains to them that the Magic Kingdom is endangered by a mysterious group of characters called the Overtakers, which the kids were chosen to be pitted against. But who is the leader of the Overtakers?
The plot unfolds as the group searches through the park’s attractions for clues as to what can stop the Overtakers, as well as their leader, the witch Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. They soon learn that the secret weapon they need is Walt Disney’s first pen, which is kept at the One Man’s Dream exhibit at Disney-MGM Studios. Upon retrieving this magical pen, Finn and his friends are finally able to thwart the Overtakers’ plan to overtake the Magic Kingdom, and, eventually, the world outside of it. Ridley Pearson has announced that there will be several KK books coming out sometime in the future.
Trivia
- The DHIs in the novel are comparable to Pal Mickey, a computerized plush toy of Mickey Mouse that is sold in certain stores at Walt Disney World, which, by way of infrared transmitters, knows its location in any of the four parks at the resort while being carried around, and can thereby share fun facts about the area and its attractions, thus making the toy a programmed tour guide of sorts.
DHIs
Lawrence Finnegan Whitman (Finn)Isabella Angelo (Willa)
Terry Maybeck (Maybeck)
Charlene Turner
Philby
- ISBN 0786854448 (hardcover, 2005)
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