Dedicated to Brandon Sanderson, Jed and the Junkyard War by Steven Bohls is a must read.
12-year-old Jed is searching for his missing parents, but on the way discovers he’s been spirited from a junkyard.
His parents left him with an odd key and an odd set of instructions: “go to the junkyard” behind the dishwasher, and “push every red button you find.” This by itself is enough to get anyone’s attention.
Floating over an ocean of heaping junk, in a unique, steampunk world where the currency is batteries, Jed will have to fight dreads, creatures assembled from random bric-a-brac. Oh, but it’s not finished. There’s a treasure map that doesn’t exactly lead where it's supposed to.
My nine-year-old son was immediately hooked by the action-packed, easy language, clear stakes, and the fresh world. This book was fun to read and introduced us to a world every little boy probably dreams of. Plus, it has a great cliffhanger at the end of the book that kept us wanting for more.
What makes this book really successful in my opinion is that the novel’s conception is very Disney-ish and follow a well-known and irresistible structure. Boys will feel at home.
12-year-old Jed is searching for his missing parents, but on the way discovers he’s been spirited from a junkyard.
His parents left him with an odd key and an odd set of instructions: “go to the junkyard” behind the dishwasher, and “push every red button you find.” This by itself is enough to get anyone’s attention.
Floating over an ocean of heaping junk, in a unique, steampunk world where the currency is batteries, Jed will have to fight dreads, creatures assembled from random bric-a-brac. Oh, but it’s not finished. There’s a treasure map that doesn’t exactly lead where it's supposed to.
My nine-year-old son was immediately hooked by the action-packed, easy language, clear stakes, and the fresh world. This book was fun to read and introduced us to a world every little boy probably dreams of. Plus, it has a great cliffhanger at the end of the book that kept us wanting for more.
What makes this book really successful in my opinion is that the novel’s conception is very Disney-ish and follow a well-known and irresistible structure. Boys will feel at home.