Johnny and the Doomsday Machine
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5.0 • 20 Ratings
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
Twelve-year-old Johnny Fremont is the world's only hope when the Council of Fifty, a secret society of the most evil people on the planet, decides to wipe out the entire Southern Hemisphere with a doomsday machine.
Johnny may be only twelve-years-old, but he's been training his entire life for a fabulous Indiana Jones-like adventure. He trains with one motto: if anybody in the world is capable of doing something, then he should be able to do it. If David Blaine can hold his breath for eight minutes, then Johnny should be able to do it for nine. If a fitness guru can swim the English Channel, handcuffed, shackled, and pulling a boat, then Johnny should be able to do it with one hand tied behind his back as well. With this philosophy, Johnny has become the world's smartest and toughest kid. However, he has to pretend to be average at school (he makes sure his grades are all C's, not C pluses or C minuses) so that he won't stick out.
Johnny's chance for adventure finally comes when he must track down Albert Einstein's diary, which contains all the extreme secrets of the universe. Einstein hid the diary in his house before he died. For the next sixty years, every government in the world has ransacked and probed the house, searching desperately for the diary, but they came up completely empty. However, when Johnny teams up with Azelia, his arch-nemesis, they find it in one hour.
Following the clues that Einstein laid out in his the diary, Johnny and Azelia, arguing every single second, embark on an incredible adventure to save the world from a doomsday machine that destroys the planet every 25,000 years.
About the Author:
From WGA Award nominated screenwriter David Titcher ("The Librarian: Quest for the Spear," "Around the World in Eighty Days," and "The Curse of King Tut's Tomb").
Customer Reviews
Mr.
I knew something was up when my son asked me what "labyrinth" meant. When I asked him why he wanted to know, he said it was one of the special vocabulary words in this new book he was reading. That's when I really knew something was up because my son doesn't usually read a book unless I read it to him. He was excited about "Johnny and the Doomsday Machine" and I was excited when I looked through the book and saw that it was filled with all sorts of educational quizzes and other interactive elements. My son is having fun with it and he actually might learn something as well.
cool book
This book was cool! I read it in 3 days (a record for me). I've never read an interactive book before but I'll look out for them now, it was exciting to play with it and answer the quizzes. My favorite part was the narrator.
Definite Buy!
Great book for kids. I would definitely recommend getting this book. My son loved it and the interactive parts really kept him entertained. This is a book you can keep reading over and over and always be entertained.