Boy in the Tower Lesson One Prior Class Reading: up to and including Chapter One. At first, this novel seems like a strange entity: a sci-fi about killer plants and a boy stuck in a tower block. Who or what are the Bluchers? 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. I think it might even be my favourite story of 2014 so far. 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. What does the word vibrant mean? 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. PART ONE Before. 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. LoveReading View on Boy in the Tower. Trapped in his tower block, how can Ade survive as the Bluchers weave their deadly circle around his home? Very gritty and real (besides the bluchers of course). Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2019. Encourage children to … Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. How has the designer of this front ... now that the Bluchers 13. When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily, as if … Our narrator and protagonist is ten year-old Ade who lives with and cares for his housebound mother; when the mysterious ‘bluchers… Buy Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. Price £6.99. How many birds are on the front cover? Published by Corgi. 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. Yet, as you delve deeper into it, you realise that it is so much more. Boy In The Tower comes highly recommended by me. Notice that the crowds have demolished the display of books even faster than a Blucher could take down a building. Chapter One ... Bluchers are here. I think it might even be my favourite story of 2014 so far. This one of Polly Ho-Yen reading an extract from Boy in the Tower… Publisher Corgi. Boy in the Tower. Verified Purchase. Paperback. SPOILER ALERT - ... 1.0 out of 5 stars The boy in the tower. 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