The Lost Hunters
Author: Nick Earls
Illustrator: Terry Whidborne
Book 2 in the Word Hunters series
Pages: 288
Published: 2013
Age: 9+
In their previous adventure, Lexi and Al thought they had seen it all – time travel, epic battles, ancient cities on the point of collapse, the invention of the telephone and... vomiting rats. But nothing could prepare them for the realisation that their missing grandfather is a word hunter too and has been lost in the past. Only Lexi and Al can save him. But how do you find someone in 3,000 years of history?
With more battles, more action and more words, these hunters are discovering history like never before, as they search for their grandfather – the lost hunter.
About the Word Hunters Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Curious Dictionary(2012)
- 2.The Lost Hunters(2013)
- 3.War of the Word Hunters(2013)
Reading age: 9+ years
This series should be read in order.
Words come and go from languages, but how do we know which words? And what if we lost some of the words we use the most? What if they just disappeared, and it was as if they'd never existed?
That's where word hunters come in. Every so often a word is at risk, and it's up to word hunters to track down every step of its past to keep it alive in the present. From the Battle of Hastings, to ancient cities they’ve never heard of, to encounters with great inventors, word hunters might find themselves anywhere any time dealing with anything.
For 1500 years, led by an ancient dictionary created by the mysterious Caractacus, they’ve protected English from falling apart, one word hunter at a time. But now there are two – Lexi and Al Hunter, twelve-year-old twins from Fig Tree Pocket. They find the book in their school library during renovations, or perhaps it finds them. From that moment, their life can't be the same again. Suddenly it's 1877, then 1835, then 1100, then 925 as they chase down the possible history of the word 'hello' so that we can all keep saying it now.
But that's only one word and the dictionary, as we all know, is full of them. And the past isn't always a friendly place to drop in...