SuitabookIdentity beyond family expectations
Victor’s parents value his supposed villainous nature, while he wants to leave the academy and become a librarian.
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Michael Fry - Author
A comic superhero adventure about a would-be librarian from a family that values villainy who must help confront the forces holding abducted supers. It combines identity questions with teamwork and dangerous battles against a powerful enemy.
Victor Spoil hates the Junior Super Academy. It makes him cranky, and his parents couldn't be prouder, because supervillains aren't meant to be nice. Until Victor confesses he wants to leave and become a librarian. The horror! But when superheroes and villains, including his parents, start disappearing, only a dedicated do-gooder like Victor can track them down. He discovers that the supers are being captured to square off against aliens in gladiator-like shows. And unlike the scripted fights that the supers usually sign up for, these battles are to the death! Victor and his fellow super students must join together and harness their super powers to battle this dastardly mega-villain. But to be a hero, Victor finally has to embrace his inner villain. Will he be able to stoop that low?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA comic superhero adventure about a would-be librarian from a family that values villainy who must help confront the forces holding abducted supers. It combines identity questions with teamwork and dangerous battles against a powerful enemy.
Victor’s parents value his supposed villainous nature, while he wants to leave the academy and become a librarian.
Victor must help defeat a mega-villain but is told he needs to embrace his inner villain to become a hero.
Supers usually sign up for scripted fights, but abducted characters are forced into battles to the death for alien shows.
Check whether the reader is comfortable with peril and fictional lethal violence. The book appears to contrast staged fights with battles to the death, so its treatment may be darker than a purely playful superhero story.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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