THE NINE MINUTES · A SERIES BY JORY HARK
The world went quiet.
We built a Roost.
Every grown-up vanished. The dinosaurs came back.
Up in seven impossible trees, the kids are making a life.
Keep the Roost close while you read.
Find a face. Learn a signal. Follow a trail.01 / GET YOUR BEARINGS
A guide for the
way through.
Start anywhere. The field records introduce the world without revealing the endings. Your book reflections wait until you mark that book finished.
01 · READ
Follow the books
Ten guides, in order. Each with a trail, a mission and something to make.
Find your next chapter ↗02 · DISCOVERMeet the Roost
38 illustrated records: the kids, their Matches, the places and the things they carry.
Open the field guide ↗03 · BELONGKeep a passport
Collect discoveries, complete your field missions and earn a seal for each book.
Begin your trail ↗Your first day in the Roost
Come up.
Look around.
Seven trees. A whole world between them. Pick a place to meet the village, then step into its story.
TORREY BEND / THE GROVE
01 / The Bell
Everyone gets a voice.
Ninety feet up, a fire truck's brake drum calls the village together. Anyone can ring it. The Three Laws are painted on the rail.
Play The Law of the RoostA place to belong
The Roost is built from things left behind.
What holds it together is a choice.
0 of 5 places explored
YOUR TURN ON THE BELL RAIL
A whole village.
One signal.
Anyone can ring the Bell. Learn three everyday calls, then send one yourself. Take turns being the caller and the crew.
BELL / NINETY FEET UPPRACTICE A CALL
Call everyone to the Long Table.
Two rings
Ring the Bell for each beat, then check your signal. There is no time limit.
0 rings sent
Choose a call and try the Bell.
0 of 3 calls practised
A visual companion activity. Your practice stays on this page. Sound is optional in the top menu.
02 / THE READING ORDER
Ten adventures.
One village.
Each book closes its own problem. Read in order to follow what the village builds, spends and carries into the next adventure.
BOOK 01 · Ready to exploreSignal Green
Lars VanténField stamp collected
BOOK 02 · Ready to exploreThe Impossible Rig
Nell OkonjoField stamp collected
BOOK 03 · Ready to exploreThe Salt Run
Odji FaalField stamp collected
BOOK 04 · Ready to exploreThe Collar and the Key
Kit OssoryField stamp collected
BOOK 05 · Ready to exploreNine Small Thieves
Pia MarchettiField stamp collected
BOOK 06 · Ready to exploreThe Long Note
Tarn BeaufortField stamp collected
BOOK 07 · Ready to exploreSay It Again
Wren AdeyemiField stamp collected
BOOK 08 · Ready to exploreThe Far Map
Mars QuinteroField stamp collected
BOOK 09 · Ready to exploreThe Law of the Roost
the whole villageField stamp collected
BOOK 10 · Ready to exploreNine Minutes
Lars and OdjiField stamp collected
The Long Table
There is room
for you here.
Every meal, every lesson, every vote. Forty feet of mismatched tables, and a village learning how to listen.
Open your Roost passport ↗EXPLORE TOGETHER
One screen.
Two pairs of eyes.
Take turns spotting details, asking questions and choosing a way through. Stay on any scene as long as you like.
SCENE 1 OF 5
Seven trees. A whole village.
Look together: which way would you take from the landing to the treetops? What would you want to carry?
Sound is optional. Turn it on in the top menu.
Start storytime ↗
Let the pictures move gently while you read aloud.
Try an encounter below. Decide together before tapping your answer. These are the same field missions in the book guides, and every stamp goes into your shared passport.
AN ENCOUNTER TO TRY TOGETHERBramble says no.
A river crossing. A dinosaur who won’t step into water. How do you listen to that answer?
Choose what happens next ↗
AN ENCOUNTER TO TRY TOGETHERBoiler takes his time.
A new bridge and a careful animal. What would help him decide whether to cross?
Choose what happens next ↗
AN ENCOUNTER TO TRY TOGETHERGive Nine a choice.
An animal needs room and a way out. Talk through two small decisions together.
Choose what happens next ↗03 / THE CREW
Big jobs.
Small shoulders.
Riders, riggers, scouts and listeners. Everyone keeps something going. Find the person behind the name.
04 / PAINTED ON THE BELL RAIL
Three laws.
A thousand ways to keep them.
No dino carries a fight it did not choose.
Read the law ↗Nobody goes Quiet alone.
Read the law ↗
The Crow
The map stops.
The world doesn’t.
Step beyond the familiar platforms. Follow the field records to the lookout, the river and the questions at the edge of the Far Map.
Explore the places ↗YOUR FIRST STEP
The bell is a rope.
Walk to it.
Begin with the cold open and the complete first chapter of Signal Green.
Begin reading ↗