Cirque du Freak — Darren Shan

Told in a compelling mock umentary style Cirque Du Freak is more than just a spooky supernatural tale It has bags of teaching potential and is consistently described as one of the best books to engage reluctant readers and keep them reading Darren is just your average schoolboy or was at least until he and his friend Steve buy tickets to the outlawed magical and macabre Cirque Du Freak Packed with wonderfully grotesque characters including a snake boy a wolf man and most exciting of all an enormous performing spider the boys are enchanted fascinated and yet terrified by the show Darren a total spider freak decides to steal and train the spider to perform amazing tricks Not realising the extreme consequences of his daring theft Darren finds himself forced to make a terrible bargain with a creature of the night