Book of Earth

by John Peel

Book Overview

Score falls victim to a deadly illness with only one cure: stopping the mysterious person behind this magical attack. Determined to save their friend, Helaine and Pixel go to Score's hometown, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590149652
• ISBN13: 9780590149655
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

I wish he'd write more!!

John Peel is one of the best authors in the world! This is my favorite book out of the diadem series, and it was really hard to pick a favorite. If you know that he's going to be writting more books, please E-mail me. And take my word for it, after you read one of the books, your hooked!

My favorite character is Score.

Score and his two friends are on their way to earth. Score is sick. His father, Tony, is after him. He's looking for a way to cure Score. Destiny is trying to get off earth, because she is a magician. She needs Score and his friends to take her off the planet.

The Coolest Series ever written, and the best book of all.

This series is the greatest! My friends and I read them all so fast. We all loved them because they always have unanswered questions that you are constantly trying to guess at. His other book, The Secret of Dragonhome is good, but the Diadem series is better. I like when Score, Helaine, and Pixel are on Earth. helaine is so funny. Mr. Peel of the outer Diadem ring did a great job of portraying the characters as they would be if this really was true [we wish it was!]. One question, though, if there is a Diadem, do Calomir and Ordin get the books, too? If they do, wouldn't it be a funny copyright?

I think the whole Diadem series is great!

My friend and I were the first to dig into the series in our class and each of us would get a different book. Like, she got #1 me #2 and so on. Everyone one else who would look into the books loved them as well. The book of Earth is a great book as well as the others. I especially like the high amounts of fantasy and all the other characters with their opposite personalities. I hope John Peel would write the series all the way 2 1,000! I recommend this book along with the rest of the series to everyone. (And another great book by John Peel is The Golden Compass. There are characters like the ones in Diadem (such as armored bears) in it.)

DiaDem is the Best!

Dear Mr. John Peel, I love your books! I think it's interesting having a new fantasy book series that incorporates some of the less widely used characters, like the centaurs, the sphinx, and the ice dragon, to the unicorns, wizards, and kids with magical power. It always interests me to view how writers portray the opposite sex in characters, and I approve of Hellaine. They are all believable, lovable, human characters, and that is perhaps your major selling point. I also like how all the book covers mold together to form one design! However, the suspense is killing us! Keep writing, Publish those books faster! We'll be waiting at the bookstore. Kids who are reading this, if you like this, you'll probably be interested in another book series I've read. Patricia C. Wrede's "Dealing With Dragons". It's about a teanage girl who is a very improper princess, who like Hellaine, is bored with her royal duties of curtseying and needlepoint, so she voluntarily becomes a dragon's princess, and aids the dragons in their battle against the evil magic-stealing wizards.