Hero Revealed and Some Dewey Reads

The Hero Revealed by William Boniface, 2006
The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1
Ordinary Boy, OB for short, is born into a town where everyone has one, and only one, superpower except for him. Some of the powers are useful in defending the city against the villains, while others are quirky and don’t have much practical application. OB, with his group of friends (Stench, Plasma Girl, Tadpole, and Halogen Boy), start on a quest to collect all the newly released Amazing Indestructo Collector Cards. In the process he uncovers the truth behind Indestructo and Brain-Drain, and sets up the mystery for next time: who was Meteor Boy and what happened to him. The characters are fun, if one-dimensional. OB is the brains behind the Junior Leaguers and is able to direct their use of their superpowers to triumph in the end.

Some memory-jogging tags: Superheroes. Friendship. Cooperation. Supply and demand economics. Collector cards. Igneous rock. Sedimentary rock. Metamorphic rock. Heroes. Collecting and collections.

MS Rating: Great. It would work well for anyone who liked the movie The Incredibles. Fun map of Superopolis at beginning.


Some Dewey reads:
300s:
305.23 Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman, 2005 (black & white photos)
394.264 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O’Neill Grace and Margaret M. Bruchac with Plimoth Plantation, 2001 (color photos, reenactments)
394.264 Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Matt Faulkner, 2002 (color illustrations are rendered in India ink, colored inks, watercolor, and gouache; feast of facts at end)
600s:
616.027 Guinea Pig Scientists by Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring, 2005 (black & white pen drawings)
624.1 The New York Subways by Lesley A. Dutemple, 2003 (mostly black & white photos, some color diagrams and color background)
800s:
811 If I had a Million Onions by Sheree Fitch (several poems with color pencil drawings)
900s:
937.7 Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by James M. Deem, 2005 (full color photos)