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THE DOMINION KEY
Author:
Bacon, Lee
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Series:
Joshua Dread
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 8-12
Language: English
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LC: PZ7.B134
Grade: 3-7
Print Run: 7500
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ISBN-13: 9780385743822
LCCN: 2013024860
Imprint: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Pub Date: 05/13/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $16.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
H 8.67",
W 5.64",
D 0.88",
0.8 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Joshua Dread
Joshua Dread ;
Joshua Dread.
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Action/Adventure
Friendship
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
JUVENILE FICTION / Superheroes
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LC Subjects:
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Friendship, Fiction
Superheroes, Fiction
Supervillains, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Friendship, Fiction
Superheroes, Fiction
Supervillains, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
5
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Points: 7.0
Lexile Level:
670
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| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 05/01/2014 |
| An end-of-summer mall trip sends Joshua and his friends on the run when an attack forces them to a remote island school for fellow Gyfted kids. When their new safe haven is also attacked, Joshua, Sophie, and Milton must run for their lives, seeking a key that can grant its owner world domination. Now they just have to find it before Phineas Vex does... Joshua Dread series, 256pp. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2014 |
| 3. After they're attacked by Phineas Vex's minions, Joshua Dread and friends are sent to a school for kids with superpowers. There, they learn that Vex is seeking the Dominion Key, which will give him world domination; they have to find it before he does. Nonstop action and creative, humorous details (like a giant robotic duck) buoy this third series entry. rls. 247pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 04/15/2014 |
| Continuing Series. Individual review not available. (Adventure. 9-12). 256pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| School Library Journal | 05/01/2014 |
| Gr 4-6--After his dangerous and very public summer with the Alliance of the Impossible in The Nameless Hero (Delacorte, 2013), Joshua is hoping for a normal year in seventh grade--or at least as normal as things can get for the son of the world's greatest supervillains. Unfortunately, the renegade nFinity is back, and he hasn't forgotten his humiliating defeat by the Alliance. The ex-hero is out for revenge--and he's still working for the evil mastermind Vex. Meanwhile, Joshua's parents, the Dread Duo, get together with Captain Justice, their arch-nemesis (and the father of Joshua's good friend Sophie), to consider a safe school environment for the kids--their old alma mater, Alabaster Academy. Between the super-charged curriculum, super-bullies, and secret identities, the friends have difficulty adjusting to their new school--and then they discover nFinity and his goons have followed them. With the traitors' help, Vex has infiltrated the Academy--and is seeking control of The Device--a potent weapon that will enable him to enslave the world. Somewhere at Alabaster is the Dominion Key, which will activate The Device. Alabaster Academy is a kind of Hogwarts for Superheroes, filled with secret passages, ghostly legends, slightly dotty professors, and the occasional death trap. Readers may wish there was more here about life in a super-school, but they will enjoy the series' hallmark bizarre contraptions, including a flying fortress shaped like a massive duck and wildly creepy monsters like the human/motorcycle Cyclaurs. There is also a sweet, gentle side note featuring Sophie's godfathers--two elderly superheroes, Mr. Marvelous and the Whiz Kid, now living together in quiet retirement, but ready to spring back into action for one last exploit. A worthy addition to an original and creative series. Elaine E. Knight, formerly at Lincoln Elementary Schools, IL. 256p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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