Book Review of The
Madrona Heroes Register
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Book cover and blurb
Title: The
Madrona Heroes Register
Author: Hillel
Cooperman
Genre: YA
Superhero Fantasy
Someone in ten-year-old Binny Jordan’s
family has a super power – and it’s not her. Binny’s seven-year-old sister
Cassie can turn herself invisible and now a strange man is keenly interested in
what Cassie can do. Binny’s parents seem more distracted than ever, and her
older brother Zach is hiding something of his own. Binny needs to find a way to
protect her sister, but she’s never felt more alone.
Author Bio
Hillel Cooperman has pretended to be a superhero since he was a small child.
He conceived of the story of the Madrona Heroes in the summer of 2012 on a trip
abroad with his family. By winter, he had started writing in earnest. He lives
in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle with his three children, their three
cats, and thousands of Lego bricks. His superpower is procrastination. The
Madrona Heroes Register is his first novel.
Links
Twitter: @madronaheroes
Available in four parts from Amazon (for Kindle):
Part One: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW0HREU/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2
Part Two: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW0IQTA/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3
Part Three: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW0W60U/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3
Part Four: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW11WXQ/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1
Book Excerpts
EXCERPT 1
As Rembrandt and
his owner walked their familiar path past the Jordan house, the man saw the
oblivious jelly bean of a seven-year-old bouncing with the mirror on the
sidewalk below the big house, and the determined and angry ten-year-old
storming out of the house on a retributive mission. The man could see what was
coming next, yet there was nothing he could do to stop it. Like watching two
cars speed towards an intersection.
Rembrandt was
distinctly less interested in the inevitable altercation between the girls, but
seemed to have found something worthy of his attention at a telephone pole down
the street. He started insistently dragging the man towards the pole.
The more the
older girl yelled and advanced on her sister, the more interested the man was
in seeing how the little drama played out. But Rembrandt was intent on reaching
his own destination of interest. He’d already dragged the man halfway to the
pole, and now the man was at least fifty feet from where the little girl was
standing.
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Three separate
things happened almost simultaneously: 1) the little girl finally heard the
older girl yelling, 2) the older girl turned the corner and finally was in a
position to see her quarry, and 3) Rembrandt got sick of waiting for the man to
move. Rembrandt jerked his leash and made a break for the telephone pole. The
man almost fell over, losing his grip on the leash, catching his balance at the
last second before he would have ended up with his face in the dirt.
When the man
regained his balance and surveyed the scene, the little girl was nowhere to be
found. She had been there one moment, and in the time it took for the man to
recover from Rembrandt’s over-enthusiasm, she seemed to have just vanished.
Into thin air as they say. But that was ridiculous. She must have heard her
sister coming and high-tailed it out of there. And yet, how did she do it so
quickly? Where did she go?
The older girl
approached the spot where her sister had been. From what the man could tell,
the older girl with the deepening scowl had never actually witnessed that the
object of her vengeance was standing there in the first place. Apparently the
younger girl was able to vanish before her sister caught sight of her. And
anyway, the older girl was fixated on a shiny object that was lying on the
ground. Abandoned.
Review:
I
often struggle with finding appropriate books for younger readers that are
entertaining without being condescending or preachy or sounding like morality
tales, but this is one of those rare instances where an author has transcended
the norm and provided us with a superb book that is not only entertaining but
enthralling for young and old alike.
Siblings Zach, Binah, and Cassie are not your typical children, yet they
are totally typical children. The main
character is Binah or Binny, and her name alone should give you a clue that she
is not an ordinary child.
As
my younger sister will tell you middle children have the hardest lot in life,
and Binny is no exception. Yet she has
amazing strength and depth of character that shine through in an amazing
way. As much as I want to tell you all
about her uniqueness and atypical-ness it could give the entire story away so I
will resist the urge. However I will say
that the author does such a great job of showcasing the normal family life and
day to day struggle that children will be able to immediately relate to Binny
and her siblings and the fantastical aspects will create a break from their own
normal life.
I am
pleased to discover a new author I can wholeheartedly recommend for good clean
wholesome reading fun. I give this book 5 out of 5 clouds.
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product or book may have been distributed for review; this in no way affects my
opinions or reviews.
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