Powerless
Narrator: Gary Dikeos
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grades 4-7
Ages: 9-12 years
Release Date: August 10, 2010
7 Hours and 4 Minutes
List Price: $43
ISBN: 9780307738585
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - Comics & Graphic Novels - Superheroes, Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure - General, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Friendship
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 comic book (Fantastic Futures, starring the first superhero, Johnny Noble), the green-flamed Witch Fire, a hidden Shroud cave, and—possibly, unbelievably—“powerless” regular-kid Daniel himself.
Superhero kids meet comic book mystery in this action-filled debut about the true meaning of a hero.
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 comic book (Fantastic Futures, starring the first superhero, Johnny Noble), the green-flamed Witch Fire, a hidden Shroud cave, and—possibly, unbelievably—“powerless” regular-kid Daniel himself.
Superhero kids meet comic book mystery in this action-filled debut about the true meaning of a hero.
AWARDS
- Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
- Virginia Young Readers Program Award
- Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award
- ALA Best Books for Young Adults
- New Hampshire Great Stone Face Children's Book Award
- Missouri Mark Twain Award
- Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award
- Virginia Young Readers Program Award