Ordinary Boy

Ordinary Boy

William Boniface

     Imagine if you lived in a place where every citizen was a superhero. That is... except for you! Everyone in Superopolis is super and gets there name based on what they can do or what their power is. Hints the name our main character received. His name is Ordinary Boy because he simply has no power. 

    

     In Superopolis, like any normal super hero town, there is super heroes and super villains. The band of heroes that protects the city is known as the league of ultimate goodness and the greatest hero in the world, The Amazing Indestructo runs the town and the league. AI is big and tough, he has very wavy hair that is dark brown, he wears and all blue spandex suit with a white star in the middle, he is indestructible and really strong, he is tall and muscular.He has an arch nemesis named professor Brain Drain and he is always causing trouble around town. Ordinary Boy goes to school with the rest of the super kids. He is pretty tall for his age but he is very skinny, he has white skin and red hair that flows to the side, he has kind of a square type face and he wears ordinary human clothes.  His teacher is miss marble, she can freeze her students and make them shh. Ordinary Boy and his friends have a club called the Junior Leaguers. They gather in a treehouse in one of the members, Stench, backyard. Stench is OB's best friend and he is almost twice the size of him, He is very muscular and always protects OB, He wears a military vest and tan jeans that are tight on the legs. The bad part about stench is in his name, he comes with a horrible odor that fumes from time to time. One of the biggest companies if not the biggest company in superopolis is Indestructo Industries and they are always doing little games and drawings for a chance to win big prizes. The catch is there is only a very slight chance of victory. The most recent game put together by Indestructo Industries is the 64 card super hero collector pack. If you collect them all you can win ten thousand dollars. Like all of the other games there is a trick to this treat. There is only 3 copies of the last card in all of superopolis and the Junior Leaguers have their mind set on finding it. They have collected all of the other cards and the last card is almost impossible to find. The young crusades find out about this little scheme and go straight to the source. They go to the president of indestructo industries.  He gives them hints on how to find them. The rest of the book is about them following clues and finding 2 out of 3 cards but someone keeps swiping them. Finally they find the third one and win the money the president is forced to swear to never do anything like this again. One quote from the book is from OB he says, "Stench!! Your odor is clogging my nostrils."
     I read this book last year and i think it was good at the time. I would mostly recommend this book for younger kids like elementary students. I think younger kids would really enjoy this book because young kids usually are the ones obsessed with superheroes.