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Seekers (novel series)
''Seekers'' is a children's novel series written by a team of authors under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, who also wrote the ''Warriors'' series. ''Seekers'' follows the adventures of four bear cubs: Kallik (a polar bear), Lusa (a black bear), Ujurak (a small grizzly bear who can shape-shift into any animal), and Toklo (a grizzly bear). Led by Ujurak, the four bears search for a place where they can live in peace without human interference and harassment. The first book ''The Quest Begins'' was released on May 27, 2008 and by October 2010, five volumes were available in the US and Canada: ''The Quest Begins'', ''Great Bear Lake'', ''Smoke Mountain'', ''The Last Wilderness'', and ''Fire in the Sky''; the sixth and final volume, ''Spirits in the Stars'', was released on February 8, 2011. The series has been well received, with critics praising the realistic behavior of the characters, the excitement in the novels, and the descriptions of the bears' world.
==Inspiration and origins==
Similarly to the ''Warriors'' series, ''Seekers'' began as a request from HarperCollins to Victoria Holmes to develop another series about a group of animals, but not cats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Hunter, Erin )〕 Dogs were considered, but rejected because they were too close to cats in their hierarchical social organization, pack and hunting lifestyles, and territoriality. This was expressed by Victoria Holmes later in an online chat, where she stated that she "was reluctant to create stories that... would be quite similar to Warriors. Dogs live in packs, they hunt for their food, they have a strict hierarchy within their communities, they guard their territories".〔 Horses, otters and dolphins were considered, but were dismissed: Holmes felt that horses tended to run away rather than stay and fight, and that dolphin battles would be slow without "the all-action excitement that Erin loves so much".〔 In the end, the company left the decision to Holmes and she opted for bears; in the later author chat she notes that bears "live much more solitary lifestyles than cats, they are wild through and through with no history of domestication whatsoever (performing bears don't count), and they are much bigger animals, with a whole lot more potential for fighting".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Erin Hunter chat #5 transcript – August 16, 2008 )〕 The series took inspiration from Inuit beliefs and Native American languages. Holmes found that Native Americans and bears are very closely linked to the natural environment. The names of the bears are taken from several different Indian languages. Lusa, for example, means "black" in Choctaw.
Holmes drew inspiration from Inuit beliefs and the Native American languages which are spoken in the area which the bears live. Holmes developed Ujuark's shape-shifting powers after reading up on shamans, who are supposed to be able to transform into other animals. Holmes liked the idea and decided to have one of the bears have the same ability, which allowed him to "infiltrate a human community without them guessing the truth."〔 Later, Holmes "needed to establish what sort of beliefs each bear would have," so after finding that bears are closely linked to their environment just like Native Americans, Holmes centered her research around the Natives. The names of the bears are from Native American languages; Lusa means midnight or black in Choctaw, while Kallik means lightning in Inuktitut, Silaluk means storm in Inuktitut, Taqqiq means moon, Toklo means two in Chicksaw, and Ujurak means rock.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Erin Hunter answers your questions (November 3, 2011) )〕
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