The Extraordinary Colours of Auden Dare
Zillah Bethell
Subjects
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
- Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
Average rating
I am how I've always been. My name is Auden Dare. I am eleven years old. Auden Dare has an unusual perspective on life: he cannot see in colour. He's always had this rare condition - and life is beginning to get harder for Auden. The war for water that is raging across the world is getting a little closer all the time. It hardly rains any more, anywhere. Everyone is thirsty all the time, and grubby, and exhausted. Auden has to learn to live without his father, who is away fighting, and has had to move to a new town with his mother, and start a new school, where everyone thinks he's a weirdo. But when he meets Vivi Rookmini, a smiling girl bright with cleverness, his hopes begin to lift. It soon becomes clear to Auden, though, that there are some strange things afoot in his new hometown. He and his mother have moved into the old cottage of his recently-dead uncle Jonah Bloom - a scientist and professor at the university. The place is in disarray - and although Auden's mother tells him it's because Jonah was a messy old thing, Auden knows differently. Someone else did this - someone who was looking for something of Jonah's. Auden had heard too that Jonah was working on something that could cure Auden's condition - could this be it? Then Auden and Vivi make an extraordinary discovery. Hidden away under the shed at the bottom of Jonah's garden is an engimatic and ingenious robot, who calls himself Paragon. A talking, walking, human-like robot. Apparently built by Jonah - but why? The answer to this will take Auden and Vivi on a thrilling journey of discovery as they seek to find out just what exactly Paragon is - and what link he has to Auden - and find that the truth is bigger and more wonderful than either of them could have imagined.
Reviews
I loved it so much! It's all about friendship, adventure, excitement and mystery and it's quite clever! I would highly recommend this book to family and friends.
Madam Viper Mouse 31.07.2023
This is a really good book because it is a really long book and it is about Auden.
Mademoiselle Jet Jamboree 21.07.2023
Star Reviewer
Good
Mademoiselle Honeycomb Turkey 31.03.2022
Good
Mademoiselle Honeycomb Turkey 10.02.2022
A fantastic read for year 6 with themes of friendship and what it is to be human. The characters were very likeable: sarcastic Auden (who suffers from achromatopsia (an inability to see colour), his newfound studious friend Vivi and Paragon the very humanlike robot. Set in a time where water is so scarce that people have gone to war over it, the children and robot set out on a mission to uncover the mysterious secret project Auden's Uncle has been working on. If you like a mystery with adventure and action thrown in along the way, this book comes highly recommended from me.
Anonymous 06.09.2020
So good! The ending is sad though.
Doctor Bernice Borneo 01.08.2020
This book is about a boy called Auden Dare . He is colour blind and goes on a mission to find his uncle’s invention. I don’t have a favourite character but Paragon is the funniest . I would improve it just By making it better at the start as it took a while to properly start. It’s an amazing story and I would recommend it to anybody.
Countess Daisy Lanzarote 14.06.2020
This Author is So Good!! I love both of the books she has written and loved both completely.
Anonymous 05.08.2019
It was ok but it wasn't great
Anonymous 01.08.2018
a interesting plot twist
Anonymous 21.07.2018
auden dare is an ordinary eleven year old boy in most respects except for one.he can not see colour
Anonymous 21.07.2018
AMAZING
Anonymous 14.07.2018
A story about a boy who is colour blind. He is moving house into a place called unicorn cottage. It had an interesting start to a book that made me want to read more. One word review: strange
Anonymous 12.07.2018
This book is good and has a twist at the end which I loved, but it wasn't really my sort of book. I thought it was going to be more about him being colour blind, but it wasn't. One word review: futuristic
Anonymous 10.07.2018
One of my favourites! Very exciting. My favourite character is Vivi because she is a very clever person. I defindaly reccommend it to anyone aged 9-12.
Anonymous 19.03.2018
I think you should read this book because it is griping to find out what machine it is and what the robots (Paragon) perpoes is.
Anonymous 24.09.2017
I think you should read this book because it is really griping about Auden being colour blind.
Anonymous 01.08.2017
Amazing just like a Whisper of Horses by the same author. What a good book.
Anonymous 01.08.2017
