Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416995616)

Fans of Brandon Mull and James Riley will love this middle grade fantasy trilogy about a regular kid who discovers that the truth about his past could be the answer to saving the future.

All Jack Blank knows is his bleak, dreary life at St. Barnaby's Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost, an orphanage that sinks more and more into the swampland of New Jersey with each passing year. His aptitude tests project him as spending a long, unhappy career as a toilet brush cleaner. His only chance at escape comes through the comic books donated years ago to the orphanage that he secretly reads in the dark corners of the library. Everything changes one icy gray morning when Jack receives two visitors that alter his life forever. The first is a deadly robot straight out of one of his comic books that tries its best to blow him up. The second is an emissary from a secret country called the Imagine Nation, an astonishing place where all the fantastic and unbelievable things in our world originate--including Jack. Jack soon discovers that he has an amazing ability--one that could make him the savior of the Imagine Nation and the world beyond, or the biggest threat they've ever faced.

Author: Matt Myklusch
ISBN-10: 1416995617
ISBN-13: 9781416995616
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 138966 / Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation/The Accidental Hero

Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2010 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 07/26/2010
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2010 pg. 627
School Library Journal 09/01/2010 pg. 158
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 78