From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6–Summer Jones is just a typical kid–until her father realizes that she might have super powers. He then reveals that he is a professor at Zoom's Academy for the Super-Gifted. Mr. Jones proceeds to take Summer through a secret room behind their entertainment center and down a pole to reach a rocket that takes them to the school. She meets her fellow students and Principal Zoom, an alien who has searched for humans with super powers to help keep the race from destroying itself. As Summer tries to figure out what special powers she may possess, Zoom is in great danger of being conquered by its mightiest foes, the nefarious Mr. Graves and the evil denizens of Grave's School for the Villainous Arts. The book touts itself as soon to be a major motion picture and the writing feels more like a film treatment than a novel. It also suffers from unfortunate timing, following the films
The Incredibles and
Sky High, both about superhero families, which make this seem all the more familiar and derivative.
–Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Product Description
Introducing an amazing cast of characters and a place unlike any you’ve ever seen—discover the wonders of Zoom’s Academy for the Super Gifted.
