Alex, Karolina, Gert, Nico, Chase, and Molly are thrust together once a year when their parents get together to choose which charities to send their extra money to. This year their lives take a turn for the surreal when they decide to spy on their parents boring cocktail party only to discover that their parents are actually mass-murdering super villains who call themselves "The Pride."
When they call the police to try and report the murder they witnessed, their parents are immediately notified and they discover The Pride has the entire city of Los Angeles under their thumb. The 11 - 16 year olds go on the run and discover that many of them have special powers or talents that their parents have kept hidden from them; Nico absorbs the Staff of One during the knock-down drag-out fight that inevitably ensues; Gert discovers a genetically altered dinosaur that her time travelling parents had created to be her body guard (and that was supposed to be given to her upon her parent's death); Karolina takes off the medic-alert bracelet her parents made her promise never to remove and she discovers that she is a rainbow-hued, flying alien; Chase puts on some gloves his parents invented and when he can't get them off he learns to use them as weapons; Alex, the brain, can think his way out of anything; Molly comes from a family of mutants and discovers a stregnth she never knew she posessed.
And so our six heroes set out to try to stay safe and perhaps right some wrongs, but is there a traitor in their midst?
Grab this book from the Teen Graphic Novels section under call number Y VAU Graphic Novel.
By Chris Wooding
Up All Night is a book of six unusual short stories by six popular YA authors: Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, Devid Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks, and Gene Luen Yang. Each story has a common theme. The characters are up all night - and the results are life changing. Each story is different. One is a ghost story, one a romance, one told in comics, but in each a single night changes the course of the lives.
I tagged Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Peterson with "Super Heroes," but these mice aren't super heroes in the traditional sense. They don't have special powers and they don't wear spandex, but give them a cloak and a sword and they WILL save mousedom.
Alex, Karolina, Gert, Nico, Chase, and Molly are thrust together once a year when their parents get together to choose which charities to send their extra money to. This year their lives take a turn for the surreal when they decide to spy on their parents boring cocktail party only to discover that their parents are actually mass-murdering super villains who call themselves "The Pride."
