Beast Quest Series 8: Kronus the Clawed Menace by Adam Blade (author)

The stench of death drifts over Avantia – Sanpao the Pirate King has summoned a giant vulture-Beast to destroy Tom before he finds the Tree of Being. If Tom fails, Freya and Silver will be trapped in Tavania for ever…

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

9781408313145

Publisher

Orchard Books

Date published

March 10th, 2011

Lexile measure

800L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.1; 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

cheem021
on 3 January 2014

ok
preciousone
on 9 March 2013

Great book
bugzy72
on 7 March 2013

its a good book
rahul2313
on 6 March 2013

the coolest book ever verry scary
rockstar101
on 6 March 2013

i loved it

5 out of 5
peadar456
on 7 March 2012

I thought this book was ok but the best bit was when Nanook was there to help them guard the tree of being.

3 out of 5

Book-Club-Review-Team
on 31 May 2011

My favourite scene is the scene at the very beginning of the chapter Buried alive, the description of when they are trying to get into the buried caravan.

      My favourite character is Kronus. I like him because the illustrations really stand out.

I rate this book 6/5, my favourite book of the series!

Ben, age 11

5 out of 5

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Beast Quest Series 8: Kronus the Clawed Menace by Adam Blade (author)