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![*Seven Wonders, Book 1: The Colossus Rises* by Peter Lerangis, illustrated by Torstein Norstrand and Mike Reagan - middle grades book review](images/covers/seven_wonders_colossus_rises.jpg)
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Lerangis is the author of more than (believe it or not) 160 books. He adds another wonderful title to that astonishing number with The Colossus Rises , the first installment of what will be a sweeping seven-book collection called Seven Wonders. Book one deails the life of 13-year-old Jack McKinley, who is brought to a secret hospital as a prisoner of a mysterious organization.
It's an engaging concept, and from paragraph one on page one, Lerangis begins weaving his literary magic.
On the morning I was scheduled to die, a large barefoot man with a bushy red beard waddled past my house. The thirty-degree temperature didn't seem to bother him, but he must have had a lousy breakfast, because he let out a burp as loud as a tuba.
Belching barefoot giants who look like Vikings are not normal in Belleville, Indiana. But I didn't really get a chance to see the guy closely.
At that moment, I, Jack McKinley, was under attack in my own bedroom. By a flying reptile.
The heroes are teenagers who meet and must deal with mythological things and wondrous adventures. It is a formula used in Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles--and many other books--but Lerangis makes it his own. Certainly with the upcoming half-dozen books, the series will probably turn the formula of teens against the world upside-down.
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