Matthew Skelton

While visiting Oxford with his mother and kid sister, Blake finds a strange, wordless book in the college library, but as Blake looks, words begin to appear on the page--words no one else can see.

Endymion Spring

Kirsten Simkiss

This had a really cool concept, though I don't think it was my particular cup of tea. A book being told in two distinctly different time periods simultaneously, it surrounds the stories of two young boys who come across a strange book and are tasked with its safe keeping.

There were things about it I really liked. For instance, one of the main characters has a learning/reading disability which makes school work hard for him while the other is mute. Neither of these conditions are magicked away out of convenience, which was really great. Too often, I find books like to fix their characters with disabilities rather than showing them as being great characters who happen to have a disability. The main character Blake is also a child who is dealing with parents who are separated, which is a familiar struggle for some. Some might like that, some might find it stressful - so fair warning either way.

This also has the added benefit of teaching you about the early printing press and Gutenberg in specific, though the plot of it is somewhat fictionalized.

I wish I had connected to the characters and the story more. It was interesting, but I never found it as engaging as I wanted it to be. It was no fault of the book's, more just a difference in taste. I can see now why some really loved this book while others didn't like it much at all. All in all, not a bad book, but not one I am likely to reread.

Lauren James

Read this book years ago and definitely forgot about it until now!

While visiting Oxford with his mother and kid sister, Blake finds a strange, wordless book in the college library, but as Blake looks, words begin to appear on the page--words no one else can see. Reprint.

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Hrishikesh Bhaskaran

Liz Carpenter

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Pallavi Tirkey

A young boy without a voice - whose five-hundred-year-old story is about to explode in the twenty-first century. Set in present-day Oxford and Germany at the dawn of printing, one magical book sets two boys' worlds alight - bringing them unimaginable danger, excitement and power.

Endymion Spring

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