Superheroes Reading List

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The Vindico

Wesley King When supervillains of the

Vindico realize they are getting

too old to fight the League of

Heroes, they kidnap and begin

training five teens, but James,

Lana, Hayden, Emily, and Sam

will not become the next

generation of evil without a

fight.

Rise of the Heroes

Andy Briggs

Series After Toby, Pete, Lorna, and

Emily download powers off the

Internet to become superheroes,

they must band together to save

Toby and Lorna's mother from

the evil supervillain

Doc Tempest.

Man Made Boy

Jon Skovron

Series Tired of being sheltered from

humans, seventeen-year-old Boy,

son of Frankenstein's monster

and the Bride of Frankenstein,

runs away from home and

embarks on a wild road trip that

takes him across the country and

deep into the heart of America.

V is for Villain

Peter Moore Brad Baron and his friends

discover dangerous secrets

about the superheroes

running their society.

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Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson

Series At age eight, David watched as

his father was killed by an Epic,

a human with superhuman

powers, and now, ten years later,

he joins the Reckoners--the only

people who are trying to kill the

Epics and end their tyranny.

The Paladin Prophecy

Mark Frost

Series A fifteen-year-old boy who has

spent his entire life trying to avoid

attention finds himself in the middle

of a millenia-old struggle between

titanic forces when he is

simultaneously recruited by an

exclusive prep school and followed

by sinister agents.

Illusive

Emily Lloyd-Jones

Series After a vaccine accidentally creates

superpowers in a small percentage

of the population, seventeen-year-

old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up

with a group of fellow high-class,

super-powered thieves to steal the

vaccine's formula while staying one

step ahead of mobsters and deadly

government agents

Super Human

Michael Carroll

Series A ragtag group of young

superheroes takes on a

powerful warrior who is

transported from 4,000 years

in the past to enslave the

modern world.

The Five Stages of

Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson Convinced he should have died

in the accident that killed his

parents and sister, sixteen-year-

old Drew lives in a hospital,

hiding from employees and his

past, until Rusty, set on fire for

being gay, turns his life around.

Includes the comic Drew creates.

Fallout

Gwenda Bond Lois Lane is the new girl at

East Metropolis High, and her

instinct to ask questions brings

her and her online friend,

Smallville Guy, into conflict with

some bullying video gamers

called the Warheads, who are

being used in a dangerous

virtual reality experiment.

Archvillain

Barry Lyga Twelve-year-old Kyle Camden

develops greater mental agility

and superpowers during a

plasma storm that also brings

Mighty Mike, an alien, to the

town of Bouring, but while

each does what he thinks is best,

Kyle is labeled a villain and

Mike a hero.

The Broken-Hearted

Amelia Kahaney When seventeen-year-old

Anthem Fleet is suddenly t

ransformed into an all-powerful

superhero, she must balance her

old life with the dark secret of

who she has become.

Legacy

Thomas Sniegoski Eighteen-year-old Lucas is

reluctant to take on his

father's superhero mantle,

but changes his mind as he

comes face-to-face with evil

after his mother is killed.

Pulse

Patrick Carman

Series In the year 2051, when most

Americans live in one of two

gigantic, modern States, Faith

Daniels, part of a dwindling

group that lives between, learns

that she, like other misfits, has

unusual abilities that could help

when the inevitable war begins.

Manifest

Artist Arthur

Series Krystal Bentley is an outsider at

her new high school in a small

Connecticut town since she

hears the voice in her head of a

dead teenage boy who becomes

her confidant, so she joins two

other teens with unusual powers

to solve his killing.

Dull Boy

Sarah Cross Avery, a teenaged boy with

frightening super powers that he

is trying to hide, discovers other

teenagers who also have strange

powers and who are being

sought by the icy and seductive

Cherchette, but they do not know

what she wants with them.

Hottie

Jonathan Bernstein When a power surge during

experimental plastic surgery

turns fourteen-year-old Alison

into a human flamethrower, she

drops from popular Beverly Hills

princess to social outcast,

but with the help of a comic-

loving "geek," she becomes a

real-life superhero.

The Misshapes

Alex Flynn Sarah Robertson is no ordinary

girl - she can control the

weather with her emotions. But

in a town where superheroes

walk the streets, Sarah's powers

aren't enough for admission to

the prestigious Hero Academy,

not to mention the fact that her

mother has become the town's

most notorious Supervillain ...

The Cloak Society

Jeramey Kraatz

Series Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old

in training to be a supervillain

in the elite Cloak Society,

becomes friends with a young

superhero and begins to question

where his loyalty lies.

Overpowered

Mark Kruger

Series Sixteen-year-old Nica Ashley

moves to sleepy Barrington,

Colorado, to live with her father

and discovers a mysterious pulse

of energy has given her and her

friends superhero-like powers.

The Adventures of Beanboy

Lisa Harkrader

Series Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader

Tucker MacBean loves comic books,

so when his favorite comic has a

contest to create a sidekick, he is

hopeful that he can win, thereby

fixing his struggling family.

Sidekicks

Jack Ferraiolo Batman has Robin, Wonder

Woman has Wonder Girl, and

Phantom Justice has Bright Boy,

a.k.a. Scott Hutchinson, an

ordinary dude by day and a

superfast, superstrong sidekick

by night, fighting loyally next to

his hero...despite his doubts

about the social benefits of

wearing yellow tights.

Heck, Superhero

Martine Leavitt Abandoned by his mentally ill

mother, thirteen-year-old Heck

tries to survive on his own as his

mind bounces between the

superhero character he imagines

himself to be and the harsh

reality of his life.

Joshua Dread

Lee Bacon

Series Besides being bullied, Joshua

faces one more obstacle in

middle school: trying to hide

his identity as the son of

supervillains, the Dread Duo.

8th Grade Super Zero

Olugbemisola

Rhuday-Perkovich After half-heartedly joining his

church youth group's project at a

homeless shelter near his Brooklyn

middle school, eighth-grade "loser"

Reggie McKnight is inspired to run

for school office on a platform of

making a real difference

in the community.

Public School Superhero

James Patterson In Kenny Wright's active

imagination he's a world famous

superhero, but in the real world

he's a sixth grade "Grandma's

Boy" whose struggles to fit in at

his Washington D.C. inner city

school will put his grades and

family loyalty to the test.

Jack Blank and

the Imagine Nation

Matt Myklusch

Series Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a

dismal orphanage, makes his way to

the elusive and impossible Imagine

Nation, where a mentor saves him

from dissection and trains him to use

his superpower, despite the virus he

carries that makes him a threat.