Beast Quest Series 8: Balisk the Water Snake by Adam Blade (author)

Freya and Silver are trapped in Tavania! To rescue them Tom must find the magical Tree of Being. But Sanpao the Pirate King has summoned six evil Beasts to stop him. Can Tom survive the deadly attacks of Balisk the Water Snake?

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

9781408313107

Publisher

Orchard Books

Date published

March 10th, 2011

Lexile measure

710L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.7; Middle years; 1.0 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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Reviews

binaya
on 2 April 2011

blasik the water snake

i like beast qeast books

What kids think

heart29
on 5 March 2014

Balisk is a very powerful character. An amazing book

4 out of 5
pinkxxbibs
on 4 March 2014

The beast quest books are so adventurous
preciousone
on 9 March 2013

I love BEAST QUEST!

5 out of 5
thunderball72
on 9 March 2013

Great book!Love it!
bugzy72
on 7 March 2013

its a good book
peadar456
on 7 March 2012

I liked this book because I thought Sanapo was a good enemy and it was cool how Balisk could split in two and how Sepron had to help.

4 out of 5
taylor2321
on 30 May 2011

This is exceedingly good i liked the bit when balisk became two.If your reading it at the moment i hope you like it.

5 out of 5
Book-Club-Review-Team
on 9 May 2011

This book has great settings but my favourite has to be when Balisk splits into 2 parts because I didn’t know what would happen next!

My favourite character is Elena’s Uncle. Although he was old he still helped Tom and Elena complete their 1st quest.

Overall I rate this book 5/5 – if you want to start collecting Beast Quest now is the time…

Ben, age 11

5 out of 5

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Beast Quest Series 8: Balisk the Water Snake by Adam Blade (author)