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Mighty Jack

9781626722644

First Second
Available: 09/06/16
6 x 8.53 · 208 pages
Ages 8-12 years
9781626722644
CDN $20.99 · pb

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Ben Hatke

Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talk - to tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever made.

In Mighty Jack, what starts as a normal little garden out back behind the house quickly grows up into a wild, magical jungle with tiny onion babies running amok, huge, pink pumpkins that bite, and, on one moonlit night that changes everything. . . a dragon.

Ben Hatke is the author and illustrator of the New York Times -bestselling Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the picture books Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a Goblin, and the graphic novels Little Robot and Mighty Jack . He lives and works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and their boisterous pack of daughters.