Boy in the Tower. LoveReading View on Boy in the Tower. At first, this novel seems like a strange entity: a sci-fi about killer plants and a boy stuck in a tower block. Yet, as you delve deeper into it, you realise that it is so much more. PART ONE Before. How many birds are on the front cover? By Polly Ho-Yen. Boy in the Tower Lesson One Prior Class Reading: up to and including Chapter One. 15 Revealing our secrets Starter activity 22 ... 2 Once established that Bluchers are a bad thing (although Ade finds them quite beautiful later in the book), children scan the text to find three words that support this judgement. Price £6.99. This one of Polly Ho-Yen reading an extract from Boy in the Tower… SPOILER ALERT - ... 1.0 out of 5 stars The boy in the tower. Who or what are the Bluchers? I think it might even be my favourite story of 2014 so far. Using evidence from the front cover, why are the birds flying away? Boy In The Tower comes highly recommended by me. Publisher Corgi. Very gritty and real (besides the bluchers of course). Boy in the Tower will be published in summer 2014. Paperback. You might also enjoy The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson or Catcall by Linda Newbery , both of which feature children under great pressure. Published by Corgi. This photo of everyone gathering inside the Peckham Review to hear Polly read an extract from Boy in the Tower. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. What does the word vibrant mean? Verified Purchase. Our narrator and protagonist is ten year-old Ade who lives with and cares for his housebound mother; when the mysterious ‘bluchers… Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. Trapped in his tower block, how can Ade survive as the Bluchers weave their deadly circle around his home? Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. I received my copy today and opened the first page to find lots of drawings on it as well as the back page, it dosnt look like it's meant to be there. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2019. Buy Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen from Waterstones today! Chapter One ... Bluchers are here. When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily, as if … Shortlisted for Children’s Book Award 2016, Books for Younger Readers category - Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Best Fiction for 5-12's Award 2015 - Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2015 Best Story From the seventeenth floor of the tower block where he lives with his mother, Ade watches as the buildings fall around him. When the Bluchers, a plant-form that dissolves buildings and release fatal spores into the air, take over the city, everyone is forced to evacuate and Ade is left alone to face them. I think it might even be my favourite story of 2014 so far. Notice that the crowds have demolished the display of books even faster than a Blucher could take down a building. The story is about a young boy living in a towerblock in London (Camberwell), and how he watches the city below being consumed by a mysterious plant that seems to 'eat' the buildings. 13. 9780552569163. How has the designer of this front ... now that the Bluchers Encourage children to … From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching out ... For the first people who read Boy in the Tower: To my dad and Dan. The short first chapter of this novel sucks you in by raising questions so that you immediately want to read on and discover the answers. 12.