Accidental Hero
Apr 2011 · A Jack Blank Adventure Book 1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
4.8star
51 reviews
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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.
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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4.8
51 reviews
Taryn Tardis
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August 14, 2020
I loved the book! definitely one of my favorites. It had everything! superheros, androids, killer robots, and so much more! Great humor, good characters, what more could you want!? Though, of course they're were some typos here and there, but most books have at the very least one. it's a great book, and I'd recommend it for anyone twelve and up.
Juan Alameda
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April 3, 2013
I grab it out of my library and i thought it was gonna be stupid so when i read the begining i was gonna return it but then when the the rustov came after jack i held on to it now everybody wants to check the book out!!!!!
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quentin Jehn
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December 21, 2013
I am reading this book currently and it is awsome. It is a great mystery book with misguiding clues everywhere. I really enjoy it and you will to as long as you are alright with superheroes.
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Matt Myklusch lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons.
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