Myklusch, M. (2011). Jack blank and the imagine nation. New York: Aladdin.
Plot
Jack's life is as blank as an unwritten book. He is an orphan living at St. Barnaby's Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost and he has no memory of his past or how he ended up there. Just when he has lost all of finding who he is, he ends up destroying a giant mechanical monster and is then taken by the mysterious Jazon Knight to a floating island called, Imagine Nation, which is his where he is from. Imagine Nation is a place where ninjas, familiar superheros, and aliens coexist in a world that is under threat of zombie mutants and robot viruses. Jack must step out of his normal life and enter the life that includes hidden powers and moral obligations.
Review
I am starting to venture outside my fiction box and read books that I used to judge by their genre labels. Jack Blank is a mix between Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and all of the ordinary boys turned superhero. Like Harry Potter, Jack too has had an unhappy childhood and now is forced into a world where he must take on challenges for the greater good. Fans of superheros and science fiction will clamor for these books and the future series to come.
Genre
Science Fiction
Reading Level/Interest Level
5th-8th grade/Tween
Similar Books
Harry Potter series- J.K Rowling
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians- Brandon Sanderson
The Lost Hero- Rick Riordian
Readers Annotation
Just like Harry Potter, Jack Blank is trying to figure out where he came from. He is mistreated where he lives, always wrong when he thinks he is right, and hasn't got a friend in the world. Everything changes when his life and future is turned upside down by zombie monsters, alien invasions, and hidden superpowers. In order to find out who he truly is, he must survive first.
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