Super What? [Mass Market Paperback]

Jax Abbott (Author)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 199 pages
• Publisher: Smooch (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843953853
• ISBN-13: 978-0843953855
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,658,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun New Teen Fiction Series, August 3, 2004

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Erika Sorocco (Southern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super What? (Mass Market Paperback)

Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore, Jessie Drummond, is not your average teenager. Sure, she likes guys, dreams of being kissed by Orlando Bloom, and worries about her big, crazy hair, and how it just never seems to want to cooperate. But most teenagers aren't part of a family of superheros like Jessie is. And most teenagers don't have to worry about why they never came into their superhero powers, but their genius seven-year-old sister did, and most teenagers didn't have their superhero Father killed while he was fighting evil villains for the League of Liberty, causing Jessie, and the rest of her family to leave Seattle and head to a tiny town in Florida called, get this, Skyville. But now, things are changing. Jessie's powers are suddenly coming on, very strong, and if that weren't enough, she has two super-cute guys vying for her attention. Now Jessie has to worry about saving the world, on top of choosing which guy she likes more, and wants to go to Mini Prom with. Of course, this is all in a day's work for a superhero.

Jax Abbott has proved that she has quite the imagination, as well as a way with words when writing for teenagers, and it shows in her effort with SUPER WHAT? Jessie is an exciting, wise-cracking character, filled with anger and anticipation when it comes to her superhero powers. Abbott proves that superheros, those with superstrength, who Normals depends on to save the world, go through the average emotions that any normal teenager would go through, only about 100 times worse, seeing as how so many people depend on them. Overall this is an amazing effort, that will be snatched up by fans of teen fiction, or those who enjoy a good, interesting story about a superhero, seeing as how it is done very originally here.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Your Super Powers, January 29, 2006

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super What? (Mass Market Paperback)

Super heroes really exist although their existence is a big secret. Jessie is the daughter of two super heroes and the only one in the family not to have any sort of super power. But with her sixteenth birthday fast approaching and the move to a small town after her father's death, Jessie has to face a brand new school.

It is not bad enough being the new kid in a town where everyone has known everyone else since birth. To add to the awkwardness Jessie suddenly develops super powers on her first day at school and causes a bunch of windows to explode. Things begin to happen quickly and Jessie can't help feeling more and more the freak. Now she has to prepare for the mini prom, decide which of two different boys should take her, put up with her super grandmother who has come in to see her development and deal with the League of Liberty's new interest in her.

Although this is a coming of age super hero story, the super hero part is minor. Jessie has to deal with her own feelings and emotions and her powers will not help with that. Very well done as we see Jessie really is just a normal teenager with normal feelings even if she can hear a conversation on the other side of town. A good start to a promising series. The only problem is that Jessie seems ignorant of things a city kid should know, especially her vocabulary.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't pass this up!, January 30, 2005

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girly_girl8887 (In the good ol' USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Super What? (Mass Market Paperback)

First of alll, I'd like to say that I enjoyed this book very much! If it wasn't for the fact that I decided not to judge a book by it's cover (because let's face it-the cover isn't exactly "super" cool in my opinion) I would of missed something really great. Because this book is just one of those things that definetly could of been bad like so many teen books but it suprised me! As you know Jesse is a super hero with problems to deal with like how to control her x-ray vision and super hearing but also has dilemmas (sp?) like how to deal with the "populars" like Kelli and problems with boys.Between dealing with her super hero powers and the hassles of every day teen life this book is enough to keep you reading from cover to cover.This book is hardly anything but corny from it's interesting plot to it's funny,sarcastic writing this is worth the money!