THERE ARE
SEVEN MINUTES A DAY WHEN MAGIC WORKS.
The trick is, figuring out which minutes they are.
Midnight, you might think.
But you’d be wrong.
Noon?
You’re getting warmer. (But then, it might be the sun.)
3:44 in the morning?
Closer…
Calvin, Modesty, and Drew have discovered five of the seven minutes, and thereby gotten themselves into a jam where their lives depend on figuring out the final two. But to do it, they’ll have to think outside the clocks…
Midnight, you might think.
But you’d be wrong.
Noon?
You’re getting warmer. (But then, it might be the sun.)
3:44 in the morning?
Closer…
Calvin, Modesty, and Drew have discovered five of the seven minutes, and thereby gotten themselves into a jam where their lives depend on figuring out the final two. But to do it, they’ll have to think outside the clocks…
A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Selection
"...a good choice for fans of The Phantom Tollbooth and The Westing Game and Chris Grabenstein’s Mr. Lemoncello books. While there’s plenty of slapstick, the physical comedy is surrounded by wordplay, a good balance of sophisticated and silly. Subtle jabs at climate change deniers and unqualified wannabe world leaders add layers to Clark’s newest. A smart kid’s goofball adventure." - Kirkus Reviews
"There’s something for everyone here: dragons, golems, political intrigue, environmental concern, library- and bathroom-related humor galore, bad jokes, walking firewatch towers, and three strong, smart kids who fight hard to right a terrible wrong."
- School Library Journal
"FUN SURPRISES AROUND EVERY TURN. You never know what’s going to happen next in this funny book! It’s full of odd turns and what seem to be dead ends, much like the giant maze cut into the Saplings’ cornfield. Each uncovered secret seems to lead to a new turn, another secret — and then to a key question: How will Cal and his friends ever get out of this maze?" - The Washington Post
"Tongue firmly in cheek, Clark propels his squabbling eco-crusaders through a rush of misadventures that test their credibility as well as ingenuity on the way to a confrontation with an oddly familiar villain who loudly dismisses climate change as “fake news." Another romp from the author of WHAT WE FOUND IN THE SOFA AND HOW IT SAVED THE WORLD (2013). - Booklist (starred review)
What We Found in the Corn Maze and How it Saved a Dragon is the third book in Henry Clark's monumental Totally Unrelated Trilogy, a group of three books which, through extensive outlining, painstaking story-boarding, and meticulous Venn-diagramming, have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The other two books are What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World and The Book That Proves Time Travel Happens. They can be read in any order, although reading any of them back-to-front can be somewhat confusing.
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