War of the Word Hunters
Author: Nick Earls
Illustrator: Terry Whidborne
Book 3 in the Word Hunters series
Pages: 324
Published: 2013
Age: 9+
From award-winning author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidborne comes the third and final book in a mysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all.
The final battle is coming, the grey-robes are armed and dangerous and ready for war. Lexi, Al and their friends are ready too – or as ready as they can be. The journey so far has been harder than they imagined – they have fought ancient warriors, searched long-lost cities for clues, and trained night and day for the moment when they face their arch enemy. But will it be enough? Can they defeat him and save the English language forever?
In this amazing last adventure, Lexi and Al plunge back into the past to fight for English, and to discover that language isn’t the only thing worth fighting for.
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...