Needing money, he scours the city for work. Max decides it would be smart to keep a low profile until he can figure out what’s happened to his parents. And who are those people with long earlobes creeping around? No one is sure whether the couple ran off on a lark or are the victims of something much worse. Grammie lives adjacent, and she is as worried about the missing couple as Max is. Max becomes, at 12, an independent young man. Immediately, the most important “lost things” he’s eager to find are his mother and father. Voigt, a Newbery medalist, tips expectations: Instead of a story of adventure in India, the tale has Max’s parents board a ship without him and seem to disappear. The drama only increases when the family gets an invitation to create a theater company for the maharajah of Kashmir. Max’s parents are actors, and their lives are unpredictable. Readers who wish their families were more interesting will be hooked, as I was, on Cynthia Voigt’s “Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things,” the first of a planned three-book series featuring an inventive and endearing boy named Max. Illustrated by Iacapo Bruno (Knopf for Young Readers)
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