A Jack Blank Adventure: Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation (Hardcover)

from mummybattle

The sign in front of St. Barnaby's Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost read CRUSHING THE SPIRIT OF CHILDHOOD SINCE 1898. Appropriately, the words were carved in stone because it wasn't ever going to change (p. 1). Thus begins the story of Jack Blank, an orphan at St. Barnaby's w...

from jfoster_sf

Great first book-I really liked the main character and the writing was hilarious and kept me hooked.

from conuly

Young boy grows up in miserable orphanage, picked on by grown-ups and kids alike. Things mysteriously go wrong when he's around, but he's saved and taken to a wonderful, magical place where everybody knows of him and he's offered a spot in an elite school. Also, things are awesome. Sound familiar...

from readafew

Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation is the debut novel for Matt Myklusch. It's a Young Adult novel with Jack Blank as the 12 year old main character. He has spent his whole life in St. Barnaby's Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost, an orphanage for those so described, and has wish...

from Jadedog13

After a lifetime of people telling him that they knew what was best for him and what his future was going to be, it was wonderful to hear someone say that it was really all up to him. - Chapter 7 When rumors are reported as fact for a long-enough period of time, people eventually lose the ability...