No one is hiring, at least no one is hiring someone with absolutely no experience doing anything of value, and he finds himself sitting in a park when a toddler approaches him. But there is little they can do at this point, and with limited financial resources, Max must find a job to help support himself. Max returns home, and his grandmother is as concerned as he is.
But he's alarmed when he learns that there is no ship sailing to India that day, indeed there is no ship named the Flower of Kashmir, in Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things, the first entry in this trilogy of stories by Cynthia Voigt. Mister Max is a thoughtful and beautifully written novel that will reassure the most timid of readers that hidden within themselves is a wealth of courage and untapped possibility.Review: When 12-year-old Max Starling agrees to meet his parents at the shipdocks, where they have booked passage on the Flower of Kashmir bound for India, he's dismayed when he arrives and receives a letter from them, given to him by the harbormaster, that he cannot go and instructing him that to stay with his grandmother. If only he could figure out how to solve his own mystery: the whereabouts of his parents.
Max’s theatrical upbringing serves him well, with disguises and personas that are often comical and always exactly what is needed to get the job done.
While waiting for news of his parents, Max stumbles into detective work that he calls the job of "solutioneer," because sometimes there is more to finding a solution than simply retrieving what has been lost. What follows is not what I expected-a wonderful surprise. We begin with twelve-year-old Maximilian Sterling's very theatrical parents mysteriously disappearing, leaving him in the care of his grandmother. Best Books of the Month: Middle Grade, September 2013: Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things is an imaginative blend of mystery and adventure, the first of a proposed trilogy.
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