The Secret War
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2011

The Secret War

Written by Matt Myklusch

Book #2 in the A Jack Blank Adventure series

A young hero must stop a virus, protect secrets, and uncover his father's mystery.

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Jack, a student hero-in-training, faces a spreading virus and a looming invasion. As secrets threaten to unravel, he must outwit Jonas Smart and a rogue Secreteer selling secrets. Can Jack trust his friends and uncover the truth about his father before it's too late?

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The second installment of the action-packed fantasy thrill ride that began with The Accidental Hero! Jack and his fellow students are now well into their School of Thought training and are “sidekicking” for official, card-carrying super heroes. But even though Jack feels more at home in the Imagine Nation, he’s still hiding secrets from his friends Skerren and Allegra. Jack is busy trying to find out how far the Rüstov sleeper virus has spread, working to find a cure, and striving to avoid the dire future that Revile warned him about. Meanwhile, Jonas Smart is working just as hard to discover what Jack is hiding from everyone. When a rogue Secreteer–the protectors of Imagine Nation citizens’ secrets–starts selling info to the highest bidder, Smart is ready and waiting. If Jack is going to help prevent a second Rüstov invasion, keep Smart from discovering his secrets, and find out what a shadowy, half-mad Secreteer knows about his long-lost father, he’ll need to learn to trust his friends and find the true path toward becoming a hero himself.

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Format
Pages
560
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
770L
Themes & topics
Books about superheroesBooks about diseasesBooks about orphansBooks about boys and men
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.3
F&P level
~R
AR points
15
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
145711
Publication
Published
June 26, 2012
First published
August 9, 2011
Publisher
Aladdin
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781416995654

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