Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (animal violence, fist fight, sword fight, death).
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Max is thrown off when she meets a version of herself in town. Mary is equally as shocked to meet someone who looks exactly like her too. This is Max’s town and her people, but Mary is stealing from people and causing mayhem, which the townsfolk mistakenly think is Max. When Max tries to solve the problem and the mystery she figures out that she has a twin sister. In Max’s quest to solve the mix-up she goes on an adventure with her friends and meets witches, trolls and wizards.
The Max and the Midknights series is a mix of graphic novel with 4-5 sentences of texts.
Max looks young, maybe elementary age, although it doesn’t specify and she does go on long adventures with her equally young friends unsupervised. Max is endearing and the plot moves quickly, yet develops clearly. Reluctant readers will eat this up because it’s funny, a good mix of reading with illustrations and has a lot of action. I totally enjoyed the storyline and the characters. As this is the third book in the series, I do think that it helps to read them in order so you can understand who the minor characters are, as well as how Max and her friends came to be together.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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