Superheroes soar in this promising debut--and they're kids Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice--but odd--new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their powers to secretly do good in the town, but they're haunted by the fact that the moment they turn thirteen, their abilities will disappear--along with any memory that they ever had them. Is a memory-stealing supervillain sapping their powers? The answers lie in a long-ago meteor strike, a World War II-era...
Superheroes soar in this promising debut--and they're kids Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his ni...
The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams--1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely protege to the Explorers, a secret group dedicated to exploring portals--the hidden doorways to other worlds. But while investigating an attercop (man-eating spider) in the basement of an old hotel, Tommy is betrayed--and trapped. And it's then that his world collides with that of modern-day Jezebel Lemon, who, until the day she decides to explore her building's basement, had no bigger worries than homework and boys. Now, Jezebel...
The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams--1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan ...
"A fantastic story, thrillingly told. This book has a superpower--you can't put it down." --Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus Trilogy The truth about the Super children--who have real powers like flight and super strength--is finally exposed, and the town of Noble's Green has created a special boarding school for its superpowered children. That's where all Daniel's friends are headed, while he--regular kid that he is--is headed to summer school. But all is not well at the Academy for the Extraordinarily Gifted. A clique of popular kids (led by a pair of...
"A fantastic story, thrillingly told. This book has a superpower--you can't put it down." --Jonathan Stroud, author of the bestselling Bartimaeus T...
