Beast Quest Series 8: Torno the Hurricane Dragon by Adam Blade (author)

A new Beast soars in the skies over Avantia! Torno the Hurricane Dragon has been summoned by Sanpao the Pirate King to stop Tom in his Quest to rescue Freya and Silver. Can Tom survive Torno’s deadly hurricanes?

There are SIX thrilling adventures to collect in the Beast Quest: The Pirate King series: Balisk the Water Snake; Koron the Jaws of Death; Hecton the Body Snatcher; Tomo the Hurricane Dragon; Kronus the Clawed Menace; Bloodboar the Buried Doom.

If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade’s other series: Team Hero, Sea Quest and Beast Quest: New Blood!

Product Details

Series

Beast Quest Series 8

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408313138

Publisher

Orchard Books

Date published

March 10th, 2011

Lexile measure

810L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.3; Middle years; 2.0 points

Other details

128 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Beast Quest Series 8

Author/Illustrator

Adam Blade

Adam Blade was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles, which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office, said to be a Blade family heirloom.

As a boy, Adam spent days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all.

The idea for Beast Quest was born. When Adam grew up and decided he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures he always wanted to when he was that age… and still does, even though he’s grown up!

When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. His main hobbies are fencing and football. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw! Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. But he really wishes he did!

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What kids think

bugzy72
on 7 March 2013

its a good book
preciousone
on 5 March 2013

Its very exciting.

5 out of 5
peadar456
on 7 March 2012

I loved this book because it was cool because the tree of being was almost destroyed!

5 out of 5
Book-Club-Review-Team
on 31 May 2011

My favourite scene was the illustration when the Tree of Being fell on it’s side because it had lots of detail.

My favourite character was Arcta. I like him because he scared away Torno. I have been looking at the collector cards and I found that Arcta is weaker than torno.

I rate this book 5/5 a great comeback for Series 8!!!

Ben, age 11

5 out of 5

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Beast Quest Series 8: Torno the Hurricane Dragon by Adam Blade (author)