Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation, Matt Myklusch
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation, Matt Myklusch
2 Rating(s)
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Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation

Author: Matt Myklusch

Narrator: Norbert Leo Butz

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2010


Synopsis

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik on July 23, 2012

12-year-old Jack Blank doesn’t know who he is, where he came from or who his parents are. He does know that he’s a VERY bored orphan at St. Barnaby’s Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost (a pretty depressing place). Finally something exciting (but pretty frightening) happens in Jack......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on January 16, 2013

This book was recommended to me by Erik, from ThisKidReviewsBooks. In fact, he reviewed it in a guest post here on my blog. This summer, when he reviewed the sequel on his blog, I decided book one might be a great read-aloud to start out my son’s homeschool year. Erik assured me he would love it, so......more

Goodreads review by Booksblabbering || Cait❣️ on April 17, 2024

Ever wanted to be a superhero? See an alien? Be a comic book character? Jack Blank is taken from his orphanage to an impossible place: the Imagine Nation, a secret country on a secret island; a refuge for the extraordinary, filled with superpowered people, aliens, androids, medieval knights... A plac......more

Goodreads review by Krista on August 26, 2011

I bought this for my kid while we were on a road trip; we stopped in Oxford, MS and while my husband tromped in the footsteps of Faulkner, my kid and I spent a couple of hours at Square Books. This book was recommended by the staff there as something a kid who loves Harry Potter and Percy Jackson wo......more

Goodreads review by Henry on January 09, 2017

I read Accidental Hero by Matt Myklusch. The genre of this book is fantasy because the main character has a superpower which makes it fantasy because superpowers aren't real. In this book Jack Blank, the main character, is an orphan at St. Barnabys. He was dropped off there with a note that said Jac......more