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title: "John ChristopherThe White Mountains: Tripods Series, Book 1"
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# John ChristopherThe White Mountains: Tripods Series, Book 1

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    YA Sci-Fi at its Best and Most Classic
  

*by O***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2013*

Sometimes when you are struggling to find the next book to read, it is good to just reread an old favorite. For me, The White Mountains by John Christopher was one of the first young adult stories I read as an adult, and it was the first story I enjoyed with a student. It had been well over a decade since I read it, so I thought I would pick it up again. And I am glad I did!Will has always known his Capping Day was coming, but until now, it didn't seem like something to worry about. But as his day grows nearer, he gets more and more worried about the idea of allowing one of the tripods to put a metal cap in his head that would control his thoughts. Everyone in his village had it done and seems content, but there is something about the process that doesn't sit well with Will.When a Vagrant (a person whose Capping didn't go well) approaches him about the Capping, he is interested in hearing the man's perspective. But it turns out the man wasn't Capped at all. He was masquerading as a Capped Vagrant, but in reality, he was a rebel recruiting unCapped young adults to bring to the White Mountains- a place where the rebels are safe from the Tripods and can plot to take the world back. Will decides to head to the White Mountains, and along the way he acquires two new friends, Henry and Beanpole. But the three boys have a long way to go to the White Mountains and between them and sanctuary are many many tripods.This story was written almost 50 years ago and still it is one our kids today could enjoy. I have seen a few comparisons to War of the Worlds, but this story takes place well after the tripods have taken over the world. No one really fights back and everyone accepts the Capping with a complacency that makes them even easier to manipulate and control. The idea of choosing the easier road because you don't want to make life harder with the fight for freedom is a universal theme especially relevant for today's children. Kids who are so far removed from wide-spread social protest don't really understand fighting for freedoms and rights, so this story could easily be related to the current events of our students' lives.While this is more of a middle reader, it is a great series for young adults who also like to read science fiction. The stories are easy to read, so they might be best for an older student who has a lower reading skill level. Christopher's stories are classic, and they will survive long after the tripods come to Cap us! So if you have a sci-fi junky who has burned through everything, pass this gem on. You won't be sorry!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Read this with my son!
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2022*

Feminist mom stamp of approval. I’m reading this series with my nine year old son. Wonderfully imaginative and advanced both for its time and today. Zero toxic masculinity; on the contrary, the boys in these books must acknowledge their own different weakness and strengths, being vulnerable to each other and relying on their friendship to overcome great adversity. The main character isn’t a Harry Potter golden child that does no wrong: Will is complicated and both his shortcomings and triumphs are well written.As a mom trying to raise a thoughtful son, I was hesitant to pick up a sci-fi book written in the 60s. I’m relieved and excited to see such progressive writing shaping minds today.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good allegory for the younger set
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2001*

Having reread the John Christopher trilogy (by torch light in the back of the cave) a number of times when I was in Junior High School, it was a no-brainer to drop the $... for the set now that my kids are nearing the age that they'd be able to enjoy it. Imaginative, and while not terribly challenging in its prose, it doesn't condescend, either.  The words don't get in the way of the story, and for the eager young mind this is a sine qua non for a gripping read.  This series is aimed at 11-14 year- olds; at least it was when I was that old.  It may be suitable for college freshmen these days (unpaid editorial, there). The story is set in the indeterminate but familiar-enough, day-after-tomorrow future, in what was England.  The reader follows the odyssey of a middling teen and his band of rebels who have chosen dissidence of a kind that will earn them death if caught, which nearly happens a half-dozen or so times. To intentionally throw off the mundane existence rendered by The Capping - a ritual that occurs at the age of 16 (which, in the narrator's perspective, is old) is to be "An Enemy of the State" in so many words.  Their trek to the fabled "White Mountains" (the Alps), the last bastion of a free resistance to the Masters, is well-rendered and contains enough action that tween and teen readers will be held page after page. Interwoven in the plot is metaphor for our own modern condition; mindless obedience to the Masters, who, while seemingly acting for the benefit of mankind by eliminating all war, poverty and illness (by eliminating all individuality, humanity and liberty), are in fact working diligently to remake the world to suit themselves.  That such a reworking will kill every living man, woman and child is irrelevant; the Masters are invaders of the most heinous sort, and the temporary enslavement of humans is but a step towards their extinction.This work is a good foundation for parents who wish to instill in their children the mindset that uncritical obedience to anything - government, television, rock 'n' roll, drugs, money, religion - is slavery.  To examine everything with an unclouded eye is to gather the knowledge necessary to grow within the richness of a chosen avocation; to go where one is led is simply death put off for a bit. The recently added prequel to the series provides a relevant but slightly distracting velcro to modern day tribulations; that said, the set is worth the investment for open-minded, liberty-loving parents who wish to raise well-balanced, independent kids.

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