103 pages • 3 hours read
Pseudonymous BoschThe Name of This Book Is Secret
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction
The Name of This Book Is Secret
- Genre: Fiction; middle-grade fantasy
- Originally Published: 2007
- Reading Level/Interest: Lexile 810L; grades 5-8
- Structure/Length: 33 chapters; approx. 360 pages; approx. 7 hours, 26 minutes on audio
- Protagonist and Central Conflict: Cass and Max-Ernest, both 11, encounter a suspicious and potentially dangerous cult called the Midnight Sun in their quest to investigate the death of a local magician. Intrusive narrator Pseudonymous Bosch sometimes addresses the reader in this story complete with riddles and code breaking.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Death; cult activity; violence
Pseudonymous Bosch (Raphael Simon), Author
- Bio: Born in 1967; grew up in Laurel Canyon, California; earned BA degree at Yale and MA degree in Comparative Literature from University of California at Irvine; teacher of creative writing and novelist of middle-grade series; wrote five novels in The Secret series under the pen name Pseudonymous Bosch; later wrote The Bad Books series under the same pseudonym; wrote The Anti-Book under his real name of Raphael Simon; currently lives in California
- Other Works: If You’re Reading This, It’s Too late (2008); This Book Is Not Good for You (2009); Bad Magic (2014); Bad Luck (2016)
- Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Award (nomination; 2008); Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award for Grades 6-8 (2011); Iowa Children’s Choice Award (nomination; 2011)
