by Michael Grant · Editorial Hidra · tapa dura · ISBN 9788492939633
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«Los magníficos 12: La llamada» is the young adult fantasy novel by Michael Grant, published by Editorial Hidra in hardback (268 pages, in Spanish).
At twelve years old, Mack MacAvoy carries a long list of phobias, from spiders to sharks. When the three-thousand-year-old elder Grimluk tells him that the Pale Queen has awakened and wants to destroy him, Mack must gather the Magnificent 12, a secret group he belongs to without knowing it. The adventure will force him to decide whether a fearful boy can become a hero.
First installment of the Los magníficos 12 series, published in 2011; its original English title is The Call.
Recommended for readers aged 10 to 14, especially for those seeking fantasy adventures with humor.
Michael Grant was an English classicist, Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to write full-time. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works.
