![]() ![]() While the solutions may be obvious to readers, the satisfying way that Max solves each one is engaging. The book is full of phrases to savor (“There was a lot of No in that Yes…”). Voigt is a clever storyteller and wordsmith. He is a “solutioneer,” solving people’s problems. Cleverly donning the costumes and different roles performed by his missing parents, Max discovers an aptitude for finding lost things-lost lovers, a runaway child, a lost dog, a valuable spoon. ![]() Did they intend to leave him? Are they in danger? Although his wise yet bossy librarian grandmother lives next door, 12-year-old Max wants to earn his keep and be independent. In the first of a trilogy by Newbery winner Voigt, Maximilian Starling, son of theatrical parents, is left at the dock when he misses a boat to India, where his parents supposedly have been invited by a maharajah to start a theater. When Max’s unpredictable actor parents leave home without him, he earns money by finding the lost things of others. ![]()
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