The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy

The Adventures of Ordinary Boy is about the town of Superopolis and everybody has power—but one. Ordinary boy has no powers. But powers don't always help when you need to find your identity. Read the book found in the library.
--Jacob S. gr 5
This book by William Boniface is the first one in a three book series. This one is titled The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 1: The Hero Revealed. The next one is The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 2: The Return of Meteor Boy? and third in the series is The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, Book 3: The Great Powers Outage.

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn

Do you like mysteries? Then this book is for you. The main character in the book is spending the summer with her aunt taking care of her little niece while her aunt works on her art. But they are visited by a mysterious child who Emma thinks is her friend. Not my idea of a friend though. Who is she? And where does she live?

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Linda Urban tells this tale in the voice of ten-year-old Zoe who would just LOVE a piano but her father bought her an organ. Despite that let-down, she does practice the organ and is even going to compete in a weekend organ competition. Many unusual circumstances add to the funny predicaments in her life, such as a father who doesn't like to go out in public and a mother who works too much. And how would you like it, if a boy who picked on you in school started coming over to your house after school?

Coastwatcher by Elise Weston

This historical fiction takes place in South Carolina during World War ll. Eleven year-old Hugh and his family and cousin Tom are staying on the coast to be far-away from an epidemic of polio going around their town. As the title and cover suggest, Hugh spends his time watching the coast and he actually sees what he thinks is a periscope of a German submarine. His dad must leave for awhile doing a Civil Defense job and tells Hugh to keep a log of what he observes and finds washed up on the shore. Hugh's vacation home is near a Navel Base and the family sees German Prisoners of War taking a swim. The book has factual information about the war and information about what life was like during that time period.