Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation by Matt Myklusch audiobook

Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation

By Matt Myklusch
Read by Norbert Leo Butz

Simon & Schuster Audio

The Jack Blank Trilogy: Book 1

9.56 Hours Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9781442304796

Don’t miss the first installment in a knockout new fantasy adventure series that no one will be able to get enough of! 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 further into the swampland of New Jersey with each passing year. His aptitude tests predict that he will spend 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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Summary

Summary

Don’t miss the first installment in a knockout new fantasy adventure series that no one will be able to get enough of!

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 further into the swampland of New Jersey with each passing year. His aptitude tests predict that he will spend 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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Like Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker before him, Jack Blank is a mythic hero.”  San Francisco Book Review
“An ambitious, no-holds-barred adventure…The exuberance and anything-goes whimsy of this story—enhanced by a light, comic book sensibility along with questions it raises about fate, corporate power, and heroism—make this a concept with potential.”  Publishers Weekly
“Part Harry Potter, part Peter Pan, this is a book which mid-level readers, especially boys, will enjoy. The conceit of the ‘Imagine Nation’ is excellent.”  Children’s Literature
“Narrator Norbert Leo Butz imbues Matt Myklusch’s text with the proper suspense and animation.”  School Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Matt Myklusch

Author Bio: Matt Myklusch

Matt Myklusch has been obsessed with comic books and superheroes since he was five years old. This lifelong love sparked his Jack Blank series. Before starting the series, he worked for about ten years at MTV Networks, during which time he was responsible for booking and producing celebrity interviews, assisting in the launch mtvU—their twenty-four hour college network—and managing spring break events in Cancun, Acapulco, and Panama City beach. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and family, where he is hard at work on the next book in the Jack Blank series.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 9.56
Audience: Children (8–12)
Language: English