Max in the Land of Lies Megan E. Freeman James and Johnny Golden were

James and Johnny Golden were once inseparable

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Last Magician series comes a heart-wrenching middle grade debut steeped in magical realism about a bird-loving boy who moves to the countryside where he encounters dangerous creatures invading through a rip in the sky

Charlie's story offers a fictional kid POV rooted in historical facts about the Borden family

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Max in the Land of Lies Megan E. Freeman James and Johnny Golden wereMax Bretzfeld's dangerous mission begins when he returns home to Berlin as a British spy in the much anticipated second book in Adam Gidwitz's duology that began with Max in the House of Spies. Max was on a mission. Well, two missions. One mission his British spymasters knew about: infiltrating the Funkhaus, the center of Nazi radio and propaganda. The other, they did not: finding his parents. Max Bretzfeld was willing to do anything to return to