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The Key (The Magnificent 12 #3)
by
Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
Time is short for Mack MacAvoy and the Magnifica Mack hates doing homework (that's what golems are for), but it seems that the only way to defeat the Pale Queen and her evil daughter, Risky, is to learn the magical language of Vargran. If only ancient, magical languages came with cheat sheets . . .
. . . Oh But they do (Or at least, this one does. We can't speak for any oth...more
. . . Oh But they do (Or at least, this one does. We can't speak for any oth...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
August 21st 2012
by Katherine Tegen Books
(first published August 1st 2012)
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The attention-grabbing first sentence of Book Three in the series shows that a boy is in trouble. After several pages of narrative, the author/omniscient narrator goes back in time into the action-packed adventures that have predated the dramatic opening sentence.
In the midst of the action, the 12-year-old boy gets a message on his iPhone. His response makes a clever cinematic transition to the middle school setting of the next chapter.
There is a return to the story, then a text message signa...more
In the midst of the action, the 12-year-old boy gets a message on his iPhone. His response makes a clever cinematic transition to the middle school setting of the next chapter.
There is a return to the story, then a text message signa...more
The author hooks readers from the first line of the book with the protagonist in peril. He then, ahem, leaves Mack dangling, and describes how things progressed to this point. Mack MacAvoy is one of the Magnifica, and he has only a few weeks left to find the rest of these special children and come up with a plan to defeat Princess Risky. While the adventure and exotic settings are plenty of fun, what makes this one exceptionally appealing is the humor threaded through its pages. Many of them wil...more
The setting is Paris, France and Scotland. The characters are Mack, Dietmar, Jarrah, Xiao, Stefan, Charlie, and Rodriguez. These people are the Magnificent 7 (soon they will be called the Magnificent 12). All of them except for Stefan have the enlightened puissance. The enlightened puissance is a really, really powerful imagination. It helps them believe in monsters. If they don't they would be dead meat!! Stefan doesn't have it. He is more like a body guard to Mack. The Magnificent 7 are trying...more
This is a wonderful, new novel from the author of the "Gone" series. This book will entertain all ages, as it has a very savvy sense of humor. If you are intrigued by stories of fantastic and magical factors, this book is right on point. Mack MacAvoy and Magnifica travel to Europe an must learn a magical language. For intense fans of fantasy, that plot beginning in itself is a huge draw. Of course, adventures ensue and it would spoil the book to mention all the details. This book is an excellent...more
The Magnificent 12 never disappoints! From the first book to the latest, The Key, Michael Grant will have kids on the floor laughing and holding their sides. The story is an unlikely hero, Mack who is visited by an old man in the boy's room at school and asked to save the world by finding the other eleven Magnifica and fight the evil queen and her scary insect looking daughter- Risky. Mack leaves behind a text messaging clay golem in his place at home and takes off around the world to find the o...more
Mack is still trying to assemble the Magnificent 12 when he finds himself captured by a thousand-year-old bad guy in a hidden castle. Needless to say, things are not going to well for Mack. Luckily though, he's not alone and a few Vargran words might help him and the other Magnifica escape and join up with a few more with the Enlightened Puissance. First though, they must find the other half of the key. The key will help them defeat the pale queen...unless they can't get all of the Magnifica rec...more
This continues to be an entertaining series for young teens. Mack is still trying to round up all 12 members of the Magnifica in an attempt to save the world from the Pale Queen. His golem, who looks like Mack but has the brains of, well, um, mud, continues to stand in for Mack at home and school. The golem becomes a bigger player in this story--sometimes a whole lot bigger--which is enjoyable. As the story opens Mack is about the be flung from a catapult into the wall of a Scottish castle on th...more
Each book in this series gets a little funnier, a little wittier, and more enjoyable. (I think I actually reviewed #1 as 2 stairs and #2 as 3 stars). I love the footnotes and the author's voice in this one.
I still love this quirky series. The humor is dry yet wacky, and the self-conscious use of fantasy tropes, like a villian names MacGuffin, is great.
Do you have two very opposite personalities, Michael Grant? Because the Magnificent series (first off, let me mention how magnificent they are) is just a bunch of ridiculously humorous nonsense that happens to follow the grammatical and literary rules of the world, and somehow fits together to make a fun plot with incredibly (un)realistic characters.
However, the Gone series... not so fun/family-friendly/nonsensical/ha-ha-that-was-funny-now-my-sides-are-hurting.
Despite these vast differences in w...more
However, the Gone series... not so fun/family-friendly/nonsensical/ha-ha-that-was-funny-now-my-sides-are-hurting.
Despite these vast differences in w...more
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Another part in the fun adventure that is the Magnificent 12.
Also kudos to Michael for briefly mentioning his own Animorphs books within the story.
Also kudos to Michael for briefly mentioning his own Animorphs books within the story.
The Magnificent 12 picks back up after a somewhat rocky (in my opinion) second book. This is a series I'm sticking with even though I don't think I've heard anyone else talking about it. A strange occurrence for what appears to be a fairly successful series thus far.
In The Key, the kids need to learn a magical language rather quickly, while Mack's golem still tried to navigate school in Mack's absence. The plot continues to be fairly straightforward, and operates mostly as a fun, simple diversio...more
In The Key, the kids need to learn a magical language rather quickly, while Mack's golem still tried to navigate school in Mack's absence. The plot continues to be fairly straightforward, and operates mostly as a fun, simple diversio...more
Jun 28, 2012
Ms. Yockey
marked it as to-read
Harper
Aug 2012
Ask Jenny
Aug 2012
Ask Jenny
Good but slow
Mack and his new friends continue to fill the ranks of the Magnificent Twelve, and Mack's golem starts to come into his own. I love that golem. The Key is every bit as awesome as the first two in the series.
good
This was a good book. It is the further adventures of the Magnificant 12, of which at this time there are only four members. During this book, more members are added. The golem turns into the destroyer, but Camaro saves him.
Not having read any of the others in this series, I felt very lost for much of this. However, I can see that the action, diverse characters, and humor all make this a great choice for kids who like Percy Jackson.
I love this book!!!! I am so excited for the next one!
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I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me. I was an Army brat, moved around a lot. Then I didn't settle down. I just kept moving. Why? What inner turmoil drove me? Mmmm, I gotta say none. I just have a short attention span. Easily bored...more
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I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me. I was an Army brat, moved around a lot. Then I didn't settle down. I just kept moving. Why? What inner turmoil drove me? Mmmm, I gotta say none. I just have a short attention span. Easily bored...more
