Road trips are great for reading, so I packed two books for our trip to visit our son in college this weekend. Unfortunately, much of our car time was spent in darkness; I need to invest in a book light!
I'm making headway on Rick Steves' Travel as a Political Act, and decided to start a review book as well:
The Boy Who Knew Everything by Victoria Forester is a sequel to The Girl Who Could Fly. Three chapters in, and I'm already comparing it to Marvel's "X-Men". The cast of child characters are gifted with extraordinary abilities of flight (Piper), intelligence (Conrad), strength, telekinesis, electricity, weather control.
The story opens with a conflict between Conrad and his father, a powerful senator. Conrad gets sent to a special school for children with unusual abilities, but manages to escape with Piper's help. He is taken in by Piper's farming family; it is there that he is told by the mysterious J that his real father is not who he seems to be--a matter complicated by the election of the senator as President. What are the President's plans, and how do they involve the children?
With short chapters that move along quickly, this is a great book for middle grade superhero fans! It's Monday; what are you reading this week?
I ended up enjoying The Boy Who Knew Everything, but preferred The Giel Who Could Fly more.
ReplyDeleteTravel as a Political Act sounds like an interesting read.