FINDING MERIDIAN (W.I.T.C.H. #3)

FINDING MERIDIAN (W.I.T.C.H. #3)
Adapted by Elizabeth Lenhard
160 pages
ISBN: 0-7868-1730-5
Volo
2004
$ 4.99 Paperback
Children’s Book


Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin (W.I.T.C.H.) are becoming more individual characters now as they get to know each other better, their super power gifts, and their own personal flaws.

In this third book of W.I.T.C.H., the girls still attempt to find Elyon, their missing friend. However, to do this the girls must now balance their personal and school life with their magical and dangerous lives. To save Elyon, the girls must find the correct portal to the city of Meridian in Metamoor and one of the girls will not return to their everyday life as a real person.

Whether discovering now that their powers allow Hay Lin to snap a cement pillar in two or Cornelia cracking the stone slab by crushing it with magical vines around the slab, the further discovery of their individual powers is a large portion of FINDING MERIDIAN.

Mysteriously appearing after Elyon has been chased back to Metamoor, is now a locked and heavy blue book that the girls cannot open. The girls are certain though, that the book possesses the answers to all the girls’ questions and abilities.

Also, the rivalries and jealousies between the girls is becoming part of this serial. This makes the characters possess flaws and also allows their personalities to develop. This is in direct opposition to their mission as being Guardians who must save the world from Metamoor.

Especially troubled in FINDING MERIDIAN, is Will whose mother has started to date one of Will’s teachers. With Will being a new student, this even makes her school life more difficult with the other girls and students. Will does not approve of her giggling and flirtatious mother with one of her teachers.

Having problems with a strange math teacher, Mrs. Rudolph, the girls also decide to break into her house to possibly answer some strange things. Using a phone card to break in, having the teacher return to the house, skipping school, and this unpleasant teacher suddenly willing to personally tutor one of the Guardians, creates suspense for young girls.

I found FINDING MERIDIAN to being more appealing to young readers as each girl also possess flaws, as well as magical powers. Also, the comic pages at the beginning and end are not repeating the text and actually now continue the story. The strength of this particular book is the comic pages since the story is beginning to flow now in these sections rather than overwhelming magical superpowers overwhelming each page.