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Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Just the Series: Jack Blank Adventure Vol. 1

Series and Publisher: Jack Blank Adventure

Annotation: Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite the virus he carries that makes him a threat.

Genre: [Science fiction]

Reviews: 2

Catalog Number: #58419

Format: Perma-Bound Edition

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Edition Date: 2011 Release Date: 04/26/11

Pages: 470 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 1-416-99562-5 Perma-Bound: 0-605-54929-X

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-1-416-99562-3 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-54929-6

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2011282047

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Superheroes. Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology). Juvenile fiction.
Robots. Juvenile fiction.
Giants. Juvenile fiction.
Virus diseases. Juvenile fiction.
Superheroes. Fiction.
Identity. Fiction.
Robots. Fiction.
Giants. Fiction.
Orphans. Fiction.
Virus diseases. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviewing Agencies: - Find Other Reviewed Titles
Wilson's Children's Catalog
Wilson's Junior High Catalog

Word Count: 88,118

Reading Level: 5.5

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.5 / points: 14.0 / quiz: 138966 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:4.7 / points:21.0 / quiz:Q57895

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.

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