Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware (CANCELLED): M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales [Hardcover]

M. T. Anderson (Author), Kurt Cyrus (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2009 | Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

It is a land of wonders!
It is a land of mystery.
It is a land that time forgot (or chose specifically not to remember).
Cut off from the civilized world for untold years, this land is called:
 
It is into the mist-shrouded heart of this forbidden, mountainous realm that our plucky and intrepid heroes, Jasper Dash: Boy Technonaut and his friends Lily Gefelty and Katie Mulligan, must journey to unravel a terrible mystery.
Come along on a tale of grand adventure that includes in its pages: Lost cities! Tentacles! Monks! Dinosaurs! Gangsters! Cheap suits! Eye doctors! And, of course, the fabled CURSE OF THE JAGUAR!

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

KURT CYRUS is the illustrator of M. T. Anderson's Whales on Stilts, and The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen. He lives in Cottage Grove, Oregon.

From AudioFile

The third episode of Anderson's Pals in Peril series has Jasper Dash and his friends, Katie Mulligan and Lily Gefelty, tracking a team of champion athletes/art thieves who are looting a monastery hidden in the mythical mountains of northern Delaware. What??? Delaware has mountains? Yes. This is a here-to-fore well-hidden Delaware, out of sight to the average traveler. Marc Cashman's unembellished delivery belies a wacky mixture of adventure and absurdity. Cashman gives equal weight to the spoofs of Indiana Jones, Eragon, mystical religions, and exotic locales as he narrates with a careful enunciation and seriousness that allow this playful story to masquerade as an adventure-filled mystery. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books; 1 edition (April 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152053468
• ISBN-13: 978-0152053468
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,091,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

M. T. Anderson is the author of The Game of Sunken Places, Burger Wuss, Thirsty, and Feed, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.