Okay, so the seventh Harry Potter book is finally out, and now the search has begun for the Next Big Thing. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...The Seems. The Seems is jam-packed with wildly imaginative ideas, concepts, inventions, and places. A charismatic new hero, a terrific cast of characters, and enough gadgets to fill a toy store are brought into play against a monstrous creature known as the Glitch. The Seems is reality behind our reality; the people there are charged with the task of making sure that everything runs smoothly in our world. When things do break down, the Fixers are sent in to work behind the scenes, much like the maintenance crews at an amusement park. When a vicious Glitch causes a systematic breakdown throughout the Seems, Becker Drane and his fellow Fixers must prevent the collapse of their world and our own. At twelve-years-old, Becker is the youngest--and most inexperienced--Fixer; a boy with so much to prove and everything to lose bears the responsibility of stopping a cosmic catastrophe! The Seems is yet another modern, cool kid's book (like Skulduggery Pleasant and the Alex Rider series) that I wish had been around when I was ten-years-old.
Recommended by Steve Ross