The Pocket and the Pendant (Max Quick, #1)419 ·
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Max Quick is a pickpocket, a vagabond, an orphan, and a thief. Even so, nothing about him seems particularly special . . . until one day when time mysteriously stops. Suddenly, nearly everyone in the world is frozen in time--except for Max.
Now Max must journey across America to find the source of the Time-stop. Along the way, he meets others who aren't suspended in time, l...moreMax Quick is a pickpocket, a vagabond, an orphan, and a thief. Even so, nothing about him seems particularly special . . . until one day when time mysteriously stops. Suddenly, nearly everyone in the world is frozen in time--except for Max.
Now Max must journey across America to find the source of the Time-stop. Along the way, he meets others who aren't suspended in time, like Casey, a girl who's never been on her own until now. Together, as they search for the cause of this disaster, Max and his companions encounter ancient mysteries, magic books, and clues to the riddle of stopped time. But relentless and mysterious villains are hot on Max's heels and will do everything in their power to prevent Max from ending the Time-stop. And the closer Max gets to the answers, the more it seems that his own true identity is not what he once believed.
Racing against a clock that no longer ticks, Max must embrace his past to save his future--and the world--from being altered forever.(less)
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
April 26th 2011
by HarperCollins
(first published 2004)
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ISBN
0061988928
(ISBN13: 9780061988929)
edition language
English
url
maxquickseries.com
series
Max Quick #1
characters
Max Quick, Ian Keating, Casey Cole, Sasha Fwa
literary awards
Ulysses Award (2005)
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Jan 10, 2011
Michael Tritter
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Every once in a while we all come across a book that speaks, and speaks to us individually, in a way that goes beyond the characters and events inside the story; when the story becomes more than a story. Like Lord of the Rings, A Wrinkle in Time, even The Da Vinci Code, there are times when the story becomes a vehicle for thinking about who we are, what defines us, where we come from and where we are going, and Max Quick is just such a story. I'm not saying that I now believe exactly what author...moreEvery once in a while we all come across a book that speaks, and speaks to us individually, in a way that goes beyond the characters and events inside the story; when the story becomes more than a story. Like Lord of the Rings, A Wrinkle in Time, even The Da Vinci Code, there are times when the story becomes a vehicle for thinking about who we are, what defines us, where we come from and where we are going, and Max Quick is just such a story. I'm not saying that I now believe exactly what author Mark Jeffery has put down in The Pocket and the Pendent to be the same as fact, just as the Lord of the Rings hasn't made me believe that elves and orcs are running around in the woods, but that it has stimulated thought, which in the end is the about the best thing a book can do. When we are kids our sense of wonder and open-minded exhilaration at the mysteries of the universe are so much more attuned, and this is a story that a kid can really get excited about (okay, as someone in the early 40's, I got excited too). As many reviews