Hero
Zach didn't quite know what his dad did on these trips, but he had a feeling his dad was saving the world one bad place at a time. One time Zach had asked him what it was like, working for the president, and his dad had said in a quiet voice, 'I work for the good guys.' And then one day, his...
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Zach didn't quite know what his dad did on these trips, but he had a feeling his dad was saving the world one bad place at a time. One time Zach had asked him what it was like, working for the president, and his dad had said in a quiet voice, 'I work for the good guys.' And then one day, his didn't come home and fourteen-year-old Zach Harriman had to make his own great leap into the unknown. Another riveting Mike Lupica story about an adolescent struggling to become an adult. A children's bestseller; now in paperback. For readers 10 and up.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399252839 (0399252835)
Publish date: November 2nd 2010
Publisher: Philomel
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Teen,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Action,
Comics,
Superheroes
Mike Lupica's "Hero", is the first book in the start of a promising contemporary fantasy series. Fourteen-year-old Zach Harriman begins to learn that life is taking on a different course than he thought it would. With his father gone and these strange powers developing within him, other people start...
Mike Lupica is a wonderful writer, and both adults and children have enjoyed his many sports-related works. In Hero, Lupica's writing branches out and enters the realm of superheroes. And he does it with the fine writing, solid characterizations, and fabulous plot construction that make his other ch...
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