LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Former Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho’s new series is sure to work its magic on young readers!
Relic Hamilton lives with his grandad above their antique shop in London’s Soho. His world is transformed totally when he finds a set of brass lamps under the floorboards in their cellar. It won’t come as a surprise that they contain genies, but, along with Relic, we quickly discover that there’s a lot to learn about these genies.
Before you can say, ‘three wishes?’, Relic has joined the team at the Hermitic Sodality of Genie Hunters, an organisation that mixes magic, hi-tech and some fabulous gadgets to track down errant genies and protect humanity.
As ‘Wielder of the Lamps’, Relic has real gifts, but it takes an encounter with a pirate captain, sailing the seas hundreds of years ago, to help him unlock the courage he needs to use his powers. The story is immensely satisfying and there’s a great cast of characters – everyone will love Rania, almost 14, youngest doctor ever, half human, half genie.
Coelho is a poet as well as author and each chapter opens with a poem, which is an extra treat, while Hyun Song We’s illustrations of the genies and the action are terrific. Genie-us all round!
Andrea Reece
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Relic Hamilton, Genie Hunter Synopsis
Relic Hamilton is just your average 12-year-old, living a quiet life with his grandfather above their old antiques shop in Chinatown in London.
Until one day, while polishing some mysterious brass lamps in the basement, something extraordinary happens. Relic feels spine-chillingly cold. Breathless. Scared. And suddenly, a real, live genie stands before him!
But this is no kind, benevolent genie. This genie is evil ... and it feeds on hope.
Relic finds himself catapulted to the centre of a fast-paced underground community of genie hunters, led by the excitable Professor Latimer and the tech-savvy Doctor Raphaela. Together, they travel in their one-of-a-kind jet, the Aladdin, secretly chasing rogue genies before they can wreak havoc on the world…
A thrilling new adventure series from the former Waterstones Children's Laureate and winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing.
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9781529509595 |
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3rd October 2024 |
| Author: |
Joseph Coelho |
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Hyun Song We |
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Walker Books Ltd an imprint of Walker Books |
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Paperback |
| Pagination: |
279 pages |
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Relic Hamilton |
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About Joseph Coelho
Joseph Coelho is the Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2022-2024, and an award-winning poet, playwright and writer. His first poetry collection, Werewolf Club Rules!, won the CLPE Children's Poetry Award in 2015, and he has been writing and performing ever since. His picture books include If All the World Were... illustrated by Allison Colpoys and Luna Loves Library Day illustrated by Fiona Lumbers. His poetry books for children include Overheard in a Tower Block illustrated by Kate Milner and A Year of Nature Poems illustrated by Kelly Louise Judd.
His ‘Story told in poems’, for age 12+, The Girl Who Became A Tree, was shortlisted for The 2021 Carnegie Medal and received a special mention from the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2021. His YA verse novel, The Boy Lost in the Maze, is longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Award for Writing 2024, has been chosen as an outstanding international book for The White Ravens collection 2023 and has also been nominated as an IBBY Honour Book for 2024.
He has written plays for the Polka Theatre, the Lyric, Hammersmith, and the Unicorn Theatre. He creates dynamic poetry theatre pieces for young people that he tours nationally. He also performs with the UK's top performance poetry organisation, Apples and Snakes, visiting venues across the UK. Joseph has been a guest poet in Cbeebies' Rhyme Rocket.
Originally from London, he now lives by the sea in Kent.
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