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Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Bone #5; issues 28-32)
by
Jeff Smith ,
Steve Hamaker
Trying to return a rat creature cub to the mountains, Fone & Smiley Bone encounter yet another adversary: the sly and mighty mountain lion, Rock Jaw.
In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Easter
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In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Easter
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
February 1st 2007
by GRAPHIX
(first published 1996)
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I have read some of the bone books in the past but my favorite one has been the fifth bone book. It is called Roque Jaw Master of the Easter Border. This book follows Fone Bone and Smiley Bone as they try to return Bartleby (the baby rat creature they found) to the mountains with the other rat creatures. Along the way they meet Roque Jaw who is a huge mountain lion that captures the three of them. This is because he believes that their cousin Phoney Bone has the power to unite the valley. He thr...more
September 30 2012
Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border
By: Jeff Smith
Graphic Novel
In the book Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, written by Jeff Smith. He takes us on another adventure through boneville. He takes Fone Bone and Smiley Bone deep in the forest of boneville where trouble awaits. What happens in the beginning of the book is that Fone and Smiley travel to the forest of far from boneville and find a stray rat creature a sworden enemy of the bones. Smi...more
Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border
By: Jeff Smith
Graphic Novel
In the book Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, written by Jeff Smith. He takes us on another adventure through boneville. He takes Fone Bone and Smiley Bone deep in the forest of boneville where trouble awaits. What happens in the beginning of the book is that Fone and Smiley travel to the forest of far from boneville and find a stray rat creature a sworden enemy of the bones. Smi...more
This is the 5th book in the nine book Bone series by Jeff Smith. This is a good installment in the series and introduces some new characters to the series.
This book deals with Fone Bone and Smiley Bone and the rat monster baby that they saved. They encounter a new (large and in charge) character, a giant cougar, named Roque Ja. Of course the Bones take to calling him Rock Jaw which pisses him off. There is much running from bad guys and trying to determine who is one who's side and just how you...more
This book deals with Fone Bone and Smiley Bone and the rat monster baby that they saved. They encounter a new (large and in charge) character, a giant cougar, named Roque Ja. Of course the Bones take to calling him Rock Jaw which pisses him off. There is much running from bad guys and trying to determine who is one who's side and just how you...more
This is another part of the bone"s sequel is about the time bone and smiley are still alone in the woods with a fellow freind along with them,and a rat creature cub that is lost. Smiley and the cub love each other and always are together. So when they keep traveling along in the woods, they meet this big tiger named " Rock Jaw" who is master of the eastern border which means everything on the mountain that Bone is standing on is all his. He keeps talking about sides, the dragon's side and the ra...more
This other part of the bone sequel is about the time bone and smiley alone are still alone in the woods with a fellow freind along with them, a rat creature cub that is lost. Smiley and the cub love each other and always are together. So when they keep traveling along in the woods, they meet this big tiger named " Rock Jaw" who is master of the eastern border which means everything on the mountain that Bone is standing on is all his. He keeps talking about sides, the dragon's side and the rat cr...more
Fun! I'm fascinated by the way that Rock Jaw's insistence on clear-cut "sides" actually highlights how not-clear-cut the conflict in these books is, especially when you juxtapose it against the rat creatures' explanation about Kingdok and the Hooded One.
It's weird that the two stupid rat creatures - generally funny and too incompetent to be dangerous - continue to seem kind of bumbling and vaguely sympathetic even in a volume when we meet numerous furry little creatures who were orphaned when th...more
It's weird that the two stupid rat creatures - generally funny and too incompetent to be dangerous - continue to seem kind of bumbling and vaguely sympathetic even in a volume when we meet numerous furry little creatures who were orphaned when th...more
I like this book because it has action because there are two sides and everybody has to pick one and each side is rat creatures and dragons against each other.I lkie the dragons because the bone creatures are on it and there very nice and do anything to protect the people around them.I hate the rat creatures because they are trying to take over by baring the star from phonobicle(bone creature)and kidnap the princess.I feel bad for the animals in this story because the animals parents got eaten b...more
Bone
Bone is about two brothers: Bone and Smiley. Smiley finds a cub rat creature, these rat creatures are their enemies. Not only are they enemies to bone ans smiley, but they are enenmis to every other animla in the forest. (Forest is their home.) However, Smiley becomes attached to the cub rat creature and calls him Bartleby.
Bone doesn't like the idea, so they decide to bring Bartleby to rat creature territory, and Bartleby will run off when he sees the other rat creatures, Bone and Smiley w...more
Bone is about two brothers: Bone and Smiley. Smiley finds a cub rat creature, these rat creatures are their enemies. Not only are they enemies to bone ans smiley, but they are enenmis to every other animla in the forest. (Forest is their home.) However, Smiley becomes attached to the cub rat creature and calls him Bartleby.
Bone doesn't like the idea, so they decide to bring Bartleby to rat creature territory, and Bartleby will run off when he sees the other rat creatures, Bone and Smiley w...more
The plot in this book Fone Bone and smiley go into the forest. To let the cub rat creature go free. But they get into a lot of trouble, with a mountain lion, and more rat creatures. Smiley and Fone Bone find out that their cousin's life is in danger. Smiley is sad becuase the rat cub creature left with his own kind.
I can connect to this book because i would be very scared for my life. If i was being attacked by rat creatures. Knowing that they want my cousin, so they might use me to get to him...more
I can connect to this book because i would be very scared for my life. If i was being attacked by rat creatures. Knowing that they want my cousin, so they might use me to get to him...more
Bone, Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border is a graphic novel (116 pages) written by Jeff Smith. This book is the fifth book of the classic series Bone. The series revolves around three cartoon characters: Fone Bone, Smiley Bone and Phoney Bone. They are white Bone cousins that have big noses. Their adventure begins after they get chased out of their hometown, Boneville, and somehow end up in a mysterious valley, where they meet Thorn, a young girl, and her grandmother, Grandma Ben. The longer...more
This is the 5th book in the nine book Bone series by Jeff Smith. This is a good installment in the series and introduces some new characters to the series.
This book deals with Fone Bone and Smiley Bone and the rat monster baby that they saved. They encounter a new (large and in charge) character, a giant cougar, named Roque Ja. Of course the Bones take to calling him Rock Jaw which pisses him off. There is much running from bad guys and trying to determine who is one who's side and just how you...more
This book deals with Fone Bone and Smiley Bone and the rat monster baby that they saved. They encounter a new (large and in charge) character, a giant cougar, named Roque Ja. Of course the Bones take to calling him Rock Jaw which pisses him off. There is much running from bad guys and trying to determine who is one who's side and just how you...more
Review originally posted here.
Why I Read It: Next in a series.
This volume lost a little of the forward momentum I thought volumes three and four had picked up, but it still enjoyable regardless.
This volume focuses largely on Smiley Bone and Fone Bone as they try to reunite Bartleby (the baby rat creature they found and have since named) with the other rat creatures outside the valley. In doing so, they get lost in the mountains and end up in the hands of the less-than-nice Rocque Jaw, a giant mo...more
Bone 5 was about Fone bone still trying to impress Thorn. And Phoney bone and Smiley bone try to get rich again. They keep on trying and trying but they always fail they always have this one mistake and have to owe a lot of money this time they get the money but they have to give it back. And Thorn goes off with another guy and Fone bone runs after her.
I cant really connect to this book. Smiley and Phoney bone are always going to try and get money but fail at the end and Fone bone is always goin...more
I cant really connect to this book. Smiley and Phoney bone are always going to try and get money but fail at the end and Fone bone is always goin...more
Smith,Jeff. (2007). Rock jaw: Master of the Eastern Border. New York:
Scholastic.(116pp.).
Giant lion talking animals rat creatures if you want to know what I'm talking about then you must read the book Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith. I personally loved this book for the because of the humor and action scenes.
The main character in this book is Fone Bone he is a Bone creature from the valley of Boneville he has two cousins who have traveled with him to a village called Agath...more
Scholastic.(116pp.).
Giant lion talking animals rat creatures if you want to know what I'm talking about then you must read the book Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith. I personally loved this book for the because of the humor and action scenes.
The main character in this book is Fone Bone he is a Bone creature from the valley of Boneville he has two cousins who have traveled with him to a village called Agath...more
I chose this book because I am a huge fan of the Bone series. The main plot of this part of the series is that Fone Bone and Smiley Bone are dropping off their baby rat creature Smiley named Bartleby, in the forest so it can join the rest of its kind. Before they can do so, they get stopped by Roque Jaw, the master of the eastern border. This book has many quotes so i cannot say which is my favorite because its all dialogue. The author's writing style of mystery and suspense is used very well be...more
Reason for Reading: next in the series.
Time for a change of pace as this book focuses on Fone Bone and Smiley Bone as they go up into the mountains to release the baby rat creature cub that they found in the previous volume. Smiley has become attached to him and named him Bartelby. They meet lots of new & a few old characters and the two stupid rat creatures continue to try and catch them, Roque Ja takes them hostage and the young possums find their trail once again meeting up with a whole g...more
Time for a change of pace as this book focuses on Fone Bone and Smiley Bone as they go up into the mountains to release the baby rat creature cub that they found in the previous volume. Smiley has become attached to him and named him Bartelby. They meet lots of new & a few old characters and the two stupid rat creatures continue to try and catch them, Roque Ja takes them hostage and the young possums find their trail once again meeting up with a whole g...more
Trying to return a rat creature cub to the mountains, Fone & Smiley Bone encounter yet another adversary: the sly and mighty mountain lion, Rock Jaw.
In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend...more
In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend...more
Bone: Rock Jaw Volume 5 takes place entirely on a cliff on the outskirts of the Valley. Here the story centers on Fone Bone and Smiley Bone's quest to return the Rat Creature Pup back to its family, only to run into Roque Ja (Rock Jaw), a Tiger. From here all sorts of troubles await our lovable duo as they meet a host of other characters that help them escape from Rock Jaw and Kingdok. I was kind of surprised that the majority of the Volume was basically one story set in one setting. It does tak...more
By Volume 3 of Bone, Eyes of the Storm, I knew I wanted to finish reading the entire series. I grabbed every volume I had read yet from my local library and proceeded to read them. Unfortunately what I didn't realize was that Volumes 5 and 9 were missing. In fact, my local library doesn't have those two volumes. So I had to put them on hold and read them out of order from the rest of the series.
In Volume 5, the Bone cousins are separated from the group. They've befriended a rat creature pup whom...more
In Volume 5, the Bone cousins are separated from the group. They've befriended a rat creature pup whom...more
Bone series, book 5.
In the last book, Fone and Smiley Bone set out to return a baby rat creature to his kind. When we catch up with them here, Smiley is trying to teach the baby rat monster, now known as Bartleby, how to take a nap after lunch. He asks Fone to read to them out of Moby Dick and so put them to sleep. Having had my own experiences with Moby Dick, I could completely relate!
Anyway, the Bones (along with a host of animal orphans and the two stupid rat monsters) are soon "between a roc...more
In the last book, Fone and Smiley Bone set out to return a baby rat creature to his kind. When we catch up with them here, Smiley is trying to teach the baby rat monster, now known as Bartleby, how to take a nap after lunch. He asks Fone to read to them out of Moby Dick and so put them to sleep. Having had my own experiences with Moby Dick, I could completely relate!
Anyway, the Bones (along with a host of animal orphans and the two stupid rat monsters) are soon "between a roc...more
I finished reading Bone #5 : Rock Jaw- Master of the Eastern Border.
The book that I read was not as good as the other Bone books that I have read. I didn’t like it because it had very dry humor they tried to add in and it wasn’t that funny at all. The book sort of just dragged on and on about the same thing. I was disapointed from the little it had to offer, but I’m very happy that the books before and after it things get a lot better than they were.
I have read only the Bone books from Jeff S...more
The book that I read was not as good as the other Bone books that I have read. I didn’t like it because it had very dry humor they tried to add in and it wasn’t that funny at all. The book sort of just dragged on and on about the same thing. I was disapointed from the little it had to offer, but I’m very happy that the books before and after it things get a lot better than they were.
I have read only the Bone books from Jeff S...more
A brief escape from the darkness that the narrative's been immersed in, with a return to the delightful whimsy we saw in the series' start. The situations are still dire, but there's no mistaking the lightheartedness of the orphaned animals, and of course Smiley and Bartleby make for comedy goodness nearly every time. We meet the new character Roque Ja, who's clearly inspired by Disney's Shere Khan, and whose affiliation remains a bit of a mystery by the end of this volume (in spite of his actio...more
Mar 19, 2013
Conner Torrence
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This book is when Smiley follows Barbeny into the montains as Foney runs after him and they get traped in the mountains. During when there traped in the mountains they meat a group of orfin Animals that helps them get though the mountains agenst the Giant Mountain Lion Rouqe Jaw. Rock Jaw is nutral between the evil and the good but he tends to help the winning side. The Evil is winning at the time so he is on there side and trys to capture the Bones and take them to the sacrifice at the blood mo...more
TALKING BABY ANIMALS seriously do I have to say anything more. OK, big giant super annoying cat. Very aggravating, very interesting. This book starts a major inconsistency, however, which will come up later--namely Fone Bone's encounter with paranormal powers, which he acknowledges as real in this story (trying not to give away too much!), but which he later, inexplicably and without narrative justification, claims are impossible. The characterization in this series is so wonderful that I was re...more
This book is bout the three Bone cousins trying to take over the east side of the border. The cousins went threw alot of stress and patients to over come the obious of not getting the east side of the border. The three Bone cousins all have an external conflict. Which is, should they all head back home even though they can't get the east side of the border, or keep going, and succed. I would give this book a 5 becase it shows how all three of the bone cousins are relentless to save and kep the e...more
whats happening to bone in this book? In this book Phoney bone travels to the eastern border to return a baby rat creature. While there they meet a new foe Rock Jaw a gaint mountan lion. also they meet a few of the biggest mounsters in the series bone clash.
A strength is that it keeps you reading and at points it is funny. A weakness about this book is that he at a point gets the two rat creatures mixed up. It confueses you and you don't know wich one has wich personality.
I recomend this book...more
A strength is that it keeps you reading and at points it is funny. A weakness about this book is that he at a point gets the two rat creatures mixed up. It confueses you and you don't know wich one has wich personality.
I recomend this book...more
i love this book it is really amazing. i personally love the whole series. this book is about three cousins Bone Phoney Bone and Smiley. these people are really funny phonney bone is in love with thorn and bone and smiley want to be rich again so they want do anything for money but for now they are working in luis bar and making some money there. while phonney is trying to get with her but every time he tries she wonders off with some guy so this one time in the book she left him for this guy an...more
The name of the book I read is Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border, written by Jeff Smith. This book is the fifth book in the Bone series. This is a graphic novel and takes place in a fictitious land. This series of novels is about a land filled with dragons people called bones, and lastly these strange evil rat creatures. In the story Fone bone, the main character, finds himself along with his cousin and a baby rat creature in the land belonging to a large mountain lion named Roque Ja. This l...more
Can this guy DRAW, or what? Magnificent as always, another typically charming installment in the Bone series. This one has the added bonus of largely involving the adventures of a bunch of cute baby animals. Awww. Awe, actually is what you feel when you read this guy's stuff. His drawings are funny/cute/smart and the overall feel is cinematic. I always feel a bit silly describing any comic as cinematic. I mean, that's the point isn't it? But some do it better than others.
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Born and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and watching animation on TV. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from B...more
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Born and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and watching animation on TV. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from B...more
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'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!”
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