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SIDEKICKS

Jack Ferraiolo

Batman has Robin, Wonder Woman has Wonder Girl, and Phantom Justice has Bright Boy, a.k.a. Scott Hutchinson, an ordinary schoolkid by day and a superfast, superstrong sidekick by night, fighting loyally next to his hero.
But after an embarrassing incident involving his too-tight spandex costume, plus some signs that Phantom Justice may not be the good guy he pretends to be, Scott begins to question his role. With the help of a fellow sidekick, once his nemesis, Scott must decide if growing up means being loyal or stepping boldly to the center of things. Great for boys, comics fans, and anyone looking for a superhero tale that’s also an insightful look at adolescence.

Jack D. Ferraiolo is the author of The Big Splash (a 2009 Edgar Award nominee), the forthcoming sequel, The Quick Fix (Spring 2012) and Sidekicks (2010), which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and School Library Journal. He also works in animation, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation as the head writer for PBS's WordGirl (a series he co-created). He was an editor and producer for Home Movies (on Adult Swim) and a writer, director, editor, and producer for O'Grady (on The N). Recently, he created Chuck Vanderchuck's "Something Something" Explosion for PBSKidsGo.org, a broadband-based show about an 8-year-old David Lee Roth-type kid who's sole purpose in life is to teach the world the awesomeness of music. In his personal time, Jack enjoys apples and American-style blue jeans.
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Published 2011-04-01 by Abrams/ Amulet Books

Book

Published 2011-04-01 by Abrams/ Amulet Books

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Ferraiolo is delightfully unafraid to inject irreverence into the superhero formula, adding plenty of humor to the highadventure high jinks. The inconclusive ending suggests that more adventures are still to come.

For his sophomore novel, Ferraiolo (The Big Splash) delivers a delightfully clever take on superheroes with this unpredictable adventure ... What starts as a tongue-in-cheek sendup of the superhero genre ... rapidly swerves into new and engaging territory es Ferraiolo reveals the story's true depths.

Ferraiolo smartly toys with concepts of good and evil, expectations of gender roles (one of the key characters is, quite unexpectedly, female), and the notion of superheroes themselves in this novel, presenting an exciting, lightning-paced superhero plot that is also a thoughtful examination of superheroism.

Present-tense narration keeps pedal to the metal from start to finish, and readers will be quickly won over as the two super-strong, super-fast, super-likable protagonists face both inner conflicts and a Dark Knight ish villain as deeply psychotic and scary as he is super powerful.