The cliffhanger ending promises a sequel. Jack’s desperate efforts to juggle the needs of three complex female characters drive this sensitive retelling. “Just because something’s dangerous doesn’t make it evil.” There’s action and menace aplenty, including a dragon whose ferocity only Maddy can quell, and flashes of intimacy, too, as when Jack’s mother’s anger melts into compassion as she sees her son in tears, or when Maddy suddenly speaks. Jack and Lilly argue about how to handle them: “These plants are dangerous!” he protests. Hatke ( Little Robot) revels in drawing the fantasy plants: green hands that reach out and grab, tiny onion-headed creatures, melons with teeth. Once they plant them, their home-schooled, sword-wielding neighbor Lilly is curious about their new garden, too-a little too curious.
Maddy doesn’t speak, but she’s entranced by the magic seeds she and Jack pick up from a shady dealer at a flea market, in exchange for their mother’s car keys.
They’ve befriended dragons, battled giants, and even earned the loyalty of a goblin army. Jack and Lilly are no strangers to heroics. In Hatke’s reworking of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Jack must care for his younger sister, Maddy, while his single mother holds down two jobs over the summer. It's the middle-grade team-up of the century as the heroes of New York Times bestselling author Ben Hatke join forces to save the world in the epic graphic novel Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl.
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