Michael Grant

The Call (The Magnificent 12, Book 1)

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Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life.
And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boys’ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and it’s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queen’s dangerous daughter, Ereskigal—also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesn’t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call?
A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic, The Magnificent Twelve: The Call is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grant’s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.
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144 printed pages
Publication year
2010
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  • abdulkarimouaydahhas quoted6 years ago
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    David MacAvoy—whose friends called him Mack—was not an unlikely hero. He was an impossible hero.

    First, there was the fact that he was only twelve years old.

    And then there was the fact that he was not especially big, strong, wise, kind, or good-looking.

    Plus he was scared. Scared of what? Quite a list of things.

    He had arachnophobia, a fear of spiders.

    Dentophobia, a fear of dentists.

    Pyrophobia, a fear of fire, although most people have some of that.

    Pupaphobia, a fear of puppets. But he was not afraid of clowns, unlike most sensible people.

    Trypanophobia, a fear of getting shots.

    Thalassophobia, a fear of oceans, which led fairly naturally to selachophobia, a fear of sharks.

    And phobophobia, a fear of phobias. Which makes more sense than it may seem at first because Mack was always finding new fears. And it scared him to have more scary things to be scared of.

    Worst of all, the horror among horrors: Mack had claustrophobia, a fear of cramped spaces. A fear, to put it as unpleasantly as possible, of being buried alive.

    So this was not a twelve-year-old you’d expect to become one of the greatest heroes in human history—not the person you’d expect would try and save the world from the greatest evil it had ever faced.

    But that’s our story.

    One thing to rememb

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