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Powerless

By: Matthew Cody
Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
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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.

©2010 Matthew Cody (P)2010 Listening Library Action & Adventure Fantasy Fantasy & Magic Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Mystery Mystery & Suspense Science Fiction & Fantasy Social & Life Skills Friendship Superhero
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We listened as a family and thoroughly enjoyed this story. It kept our attention from the beginning until the very end

So entertaining!

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This book made me love all his books awesome
I hope you make more and more

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

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친구들과의 우정과 믿음을 담은 유쾌한 리틀 히어로들과 평범한 아이의 이야기! 앞으로 더 재미있어질 다음 시리즈가 기돼된다!

powerless

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easy to read and it was very creative! I was on the edge of my seat the entire time!

very good book

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This book was very interesting and Kind of like infinity war but not really have a good day

Good stuff

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While this would be categorized as a juvenile, Robert Heinlein wrote some wonderful juveniles. This is NOT in that category, but it does have an interesting idea (abnormal powers - different in each child - in a few young people who then lose them) and runs with it.

Not the usual SciFi theme

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The 12-year-old boy in the story act like eight-year-old boy in his disgust of all things feminine. Like, he decides he can be friends with his neighbor, a girl, but only because she is not like any other girl he has ever met. She is much like a boy. Also, “fat” and “primitive” are used a couple more times than I would call necessary.
Otherwise, the story, premise, twists, and ending are just as heart racing and fantastic as I found them to be when I read this for the first time a decade ago.

Author is Oddly Sexist

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