Max Tilt: Fire The Depths

Description

When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt stumbles across his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn't realize that he may have found the answers to all his problems. Max never expected that in this last work, Verne would admit that everything he wrote was more than fiction-it was fact! In Max's own attic is the key to finding a treasure so valuable it could save his house-and maybe even his seriously ill mother. Max and his seventeen-year-old cousin, Alex, set out to find the treasure that can change everything, but they're not the only ones looking. There's also a strange skunk-haired man named Spencer Niemand, who's made it his life's work to unlock the clues Verne left behind. Now it's a race against time. Two kids with nothing left to lose against a grown man and his army of goons bent on reshaping the world. To succeed, they'll all have to decipher the clues Verne has left behind. It's an adventure that will take them from the broken remains of an underwater city to the very jaws of a giant squid to the edges of a whirlpool from which no one has ever emerged alive. It's the first book in a new hair-raising, edge-of-your-seat adventure trilogy from master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author Peter Lerangis.

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than one hundred and sixty books, which have sold more than five million copies and been translated into thirty-three different languages. His books include The Colossus Rises and Lost in Babylon in the New York Times bestselling Seven Wonders series, and two books in The 39 Clues series (The Sword Thief and The Viper's Nest). Peter is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry and has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquake-though not on the same day. He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe. In his spare time, he likes to eat chocolate.

"Max Tilt at once celebrates the old-fashioned storytelling of Jules Verne and updates it for modern readers, undermining archetypes and tropes to create a hero in Max Tilt who is honest, human, and almost impossibly lovable." -- Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and Evil "Lerangis brings Jules Verne to life for a new generation, and instantly pulls readers in with enticing clues, fast-paced action, and intriguing characters." -- School Library Journal "With an action-filled plot that moves at a breakneck pace and each chapter ending on a cliff-hanger, this series starter may have young readers reaching for the Verne classic that inspired this adventure, while waiting for more from Max and Alex." -- Booklist