With the eastern quarter under curfew, Max and Pip slip into the garrison through a drainage tunnel Max built into the east wall — a maintenance channel sized for a minifig, wet and black and barely wider than his shoulders. It leads to the one place Max hoped he'd never have to enter: the dungeon he designed when he was nine years old.

Its floor is a mosaic of identical gray bricks, and only Max knows the safe path hidden in the pattern — third brick, blue brick, skip two, over and over — with trap-grates waiting behind false plates for a single wrong step.

Max crosses it the only way he can: from memory, one locked-knee step at a time, with Pip matching his footfalls exactly. Beyond the mosaic waits a barred door — and past it, something Max built that is not yet awake.

Brickhaven is a serialized LEGO adventure story for boys 8-18 — a ten-year-old wakes up shrunk to minifig size inside the LEGO town he built, where the champion he designed now rules as a tyrant.

Perfect for kids, tweens, and teens who love building, puzzles, and adventure. For fans of The LEGO Movie, a kids' edition of Ready Player One, and classic portal-fantasy stories where an ordinary kid is the only one who can save the world.

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00:00:00 — Max finds the hidden grate he built into the east wall
00:01:30 — Into the drainage tunnel — wet stone, black, barely wide enough
00:03:30 — Up the shaft, into the curfew-dark alley
00:05:00 — The hidden hatch — six rivets, press the second and third
00:06:30 — Down the ladder into the dungeon he designed
00:08:00 — The trap-floor: identical gray bricks, wall to wall
00:09:30 — Third brick, blue brick, skip two — the path only Max knows
00:11:30 — Locked knees, one step at a time, Pip matching every footfall
00:13:00 — The far door — and a mechanism not yet running
00:13:30 — CH 11 — What Comes Next

I am the author of serialized fiction books for kids, teens, tweens and young adults, including:

- Brickhaven: A Bricks Fan Fiction Adventure

- Colony In Danger: A Fire Ant Adventure

- Eagle's Edge: A Story of Rome, Gaul and the Making of a Soldier

- Treasure Island: A Classic Adaptation

- Iron Rails & Ruin: A Novel of Steam, Sorcery and the Lawless Montana Territory

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