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Boy In The Tower

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First read: Arguably the best book I've ever read with a class. My Year 5/6s loved it and I very nearly cried (which would have been a first) When the Bluchers, a plant-form that dissolves buildings and releases fatal spores into the air, take over the city, everyone is forced to evacuate and Ade is left alone to face them.

It is awesome 👏 you must read it it is about a boy that lives in a tower............................ This book was very good. It had a lot of suspense and was a story of hope and bravery and strength. I enjoyed it very much!Her first novel, Boy in the Tower, published in July 2014 by Random House Children's Publishers, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her second novel Where Monsters Lie was published in 2016 and her third novel, Fly Me Home, was published in 2017. Both of these novels were also nominated for the Carnegie Medal.

This a perfect book for young people to read alone, but would also be an excellent choice to read aloud to Year 5 or 6. There are 32 lessons planned, all with appropriate SMART Notebook screens, task sheets and header sheets. This book is totally amazing, I am reading it at the moment and I love it. It is mysterious and exciting, even if you found out one thing you always need to know more 😁😄. It is also very scary and deep (it makes you think a lot)

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Polly used to be a primary school teacher in London and while she was teaching there she used to get up very early in the morning to write stories. The first of those stories is now a book called Boy in the Tower.

Polly Ho-Yen is a writer based in Bristol. Her debut novel, Boy in the Tower, was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Federation of Children's Book Groups Book Award. All three of her middle-gradenovels have been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.This book is amazing and adventurous, it has lots of high vocabulary and also lots of tension which made the book even better. I recommend this book to all book-lovers or even anyone who wants to read an adventure book, I think this is the right book to choose. As the story progresses, that sense of normality slowly crumbles away, especially when the buildings in Ade's neighbourhood begin to fall. We learn the cause of Ade's mum's agoraphobia, and feel Ade's sense of powerlessness. We see how resourceful he becomes in the face of adversity. We understand that Gaia helps him through all this. But before long anxiety in the community grows to the point where Ade is left to deal with his Mum alone. From Part 2 the story is told in the present tense, drawing us into the immediacy of the situation. Polly Ho-Yen writes wonderful characters, not just Ade and his mother (I grew very attached to his mother in this book). Ade’s friends are just as special as him. I thought the other tenants were perfect. I didn’t know where this story was going to take me but I loved the journey. Something happen to Ade’s mother that made her fear the outside, and when the outside really does become dangerous Ade is left to look after her.

Well my school teacher is reading it in class and it's really good because it's got a lot of information and it's really deatailed as well. My class is at the bit when the blutchers come and ade,obey,dory and the other boy from the flashlight. When they are having dinner and ade stops at Dory door my opinion of the book is brilliant and spectacular you have done a really good job on the book and a lot of effort As the danger to Ade grows, and the sinister nature of the bluchers becomes more scary,we see what he's really made of. All the time we are wondering how on earth he is going to escape the inevitable doom unscathed. When Ade faces his most dangerous fate, we are terrified with him, knowing what an ordeal he has endured to survive to that point. The suspense is almost suffocating, and not only do we care about Ade and Mum, but also his new found friends who have helped each other.First, the buildings fell. Then the people on the streets. No one could explain why until they found the Bluchers. His mum doesn't really like looking outside - but it's going outside that she hates. She prefers to sleep all day inside their tower, where it's safe. Through the short chapters, Ade shares with us his thoughts and feelings, his habits and fears and his role in the book is made all the more interesting by his emotional absence of his mother. There are moments when he feels as real a person as someone you meet. His monologues and observations of life are ones which some children will associate with and these are elements which I think draw us to him so strongly. They tell each other everything and Ade loves how much Gaia knows about the plants and world around them. Their lives begin to change when the Bluchers arrive.

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