Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Bone, Vol. 5) [Paperback]

Jeff Smith (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up

Trying to return a rat creature cub to the mountains, Fone & Smiley Bone encounter yet another adversary: the sly and mighty mountain lion, Rock Jaw.

In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend a group of baby animals who are being orphaned by rat creature attacks. Everything comes to a head in an earth-shattering clash between Rock Jaw and Kingdok, the leader of the rat creatures.

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About the Author

Jeff Smith was born and raised in the American Midwest and learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and TV animation. He launched the comic book Bone in 1991.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Graphix; Trade Paperback Edition edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043970636X
• ISBN-13: 978-0439706360
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Children's Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Comics & Graphic Novels

More About the Author

After four years of drawing comic strips for Ohio State University's student newspaper, Jeff Smith launched the comic book Bone in 1991. Between Bone and his other comic book projects, he now spends much of his time on the international guest circuit, promoting comics and the art of graphic novels.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Once Again, Great Color with a Hitch, February 3, 2007

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D. G. D. Davidson "www.scificatholic.com" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Bone, Vol. 5) (Paperback)

The fifth and middle installment of the Bone series returns to the epic's beginnings, temporarily putting aside the Valley's violent political upheavals for a fast-paced and funny story of Fone Bone and Smiley Bone encountering an assortment of cute talking animals as they try to return a baby rat creature to its home in the mountains. On the way, they run into the opportunistic Rock Jaw, a giant mountain lion, and the two stupid rat creatures, who are still bent on baking Fone Bone into a quiche.

Probably the weakest of the Bone series, Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border is nonetheless exciting and entertaining, and does contribute further development to the story's unfolding mysteries.

Steve Hamaker's coloration is again bright and pleasing, but once again he mixes up the two stupid rat creatures. Physically identical but with distinct personalities, the rats are color-coded (brown and purple) in the color version, but at one point Hamaker switches them, causing some puzzlement.

5.0 out of 5 stars the Bone Book collection an amazing series, December 4, 2011

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Kulla - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Bone, Vol. 5) (Paperback)

The Bone book collection is truly amazing and they are an all time favorite for my daughter who have read this since she was 10 and she still loves them now at age 13 - it is rare to find books which works on so many levels and the drawings are just truly amazing.

5.0 out of 5 stars Time For a Side Story and Two New Characters, September 1, 2011

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Nicola Manning (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Bone, Vol. 5) (Paperback)

Reason for Reading: next in the series.

Time for a change of pace as this book focuses on Fone Bone and Smiley Bone as they go up into the mountains to release the baby rat creature cub that they found in the previous volume. Smiley has become attached to him and named him Bartelby. They meet lots of new & a few old characters and the two stupid rat creatures continue to try and catch them, Roque Ja takes them hostage and the young possums find their trail once again meeting up with a whole group of orphaned animals. Fone and Smiley meet up with every possible bad guy to date on this mini side-expedition bringing lots of excitement and the usual humour. Fone and Smiley are definitely my favourite two characters though I did miss the red dragon's usual cameo.