Mighty Jack
By: Ben Hatke ; color by Alex Campbell and Hilary Sycamore
Contributors: Campbell, Alex, 1979- colourist; Sycamore, Hilary, colourist
Edition: First edition.
Series: Mighty Jack -- bk. 1
Publisher: First Second
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781626722651; 9781626722644
Subjects: Magic; Brothers and sisters; Juvenile fiction; Graphic novels; Dragons; Boys; Autistic children; Jack and the beanstalk; Adventure fiction; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure; Family relationships; Comic books, strips; JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels; Adaptations
Description: 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. 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.
Notes: Ages 10-13.