Saturday, 2 April 2011

The Sleeping Sword by Michael Morpurgo

This book is based on a young boy who has a dream that he becomes blind in an accident. His parents had to pay for him to attend a special school for blind people, however they found it very difficult to fund. He didn’t really like being there as he missed his friends truly. He even tried to commit suicide. Anna his best friend decided to raise money for him to have a private tutor at home; this was successful and he left the special school.

One day when his father was ploughing on his farm, he came across a silver, shiny sword. Archaeologists told him it belonged to King Arthur, he decided to return it to him. The journey to King Arthur was very adventurous, he experienced going on a ghost ship, beautiful seagulls flying and fish leading him and Anna to King Arthur. King Arthur asked them to bury it and wished for all their dreams to come true. The young boy woke up and realized it was all a dream.

This book was very fascinating and mysterious as you didn’t know what was going to happen next. I found it very hard to put it down, once I started to read it.

Rosie Watson

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