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Title: Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
Subtitle: Please Don't Tell My Parents Series #1
Author: Richard Roberts
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1500 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets that even she doesn't understand. She has two superpowered best friends. In middle school the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it.
Criminal masterminds, heroes in power armor, bottles of dragon blood, alien war drones, shape-shifters, and ghosts - no matter what the superpowered world throws at her, Penny and her friends come out on top. They have to. If she can keep winning, maybe she can clear her name before her mom and dad find out.
Members Reviews:
If This was a Jury, I'd be the Holdout...
I seem to be alone in my assessment of this book. But I found it totally lacking in fully realized characters that I had to put in my own preconceived attributes of teenagers and comic book superheroes. I needed more reality, more descriptions of the world they live in.
Almost everything was just told instead of shown. We got characters telling about the super heroes and villains without actually being in the story. And the author goes to great lengths to describe the workings and mechanisms of the devices that I found to be so dull because it was like, who cares if the altenator circuit thing doesn't have the proper wires? That's not the reality that is needed.
To be fair, I admit to stopping listening a bit more than halfway through so maybe it really picked up later, but I just couldn't wait.
And, by the way, I enjoy YA series with superheroes like Ex-Heroes, but those were well-written, clearly establishing the world that these well-defined characters lived in.
Sorry, it's just that with a title so compelling, the book really disappointed.
Fun for the whole family
So I picked up this book when it was on sale on audible because my son was wanting to listen to a book. As it turns out we ended up spending the better part of every night for a full week sitting on the couch and listening to this wonderful book together. My son isn't a big 'reader' but this has encouraged him to explore books more. As for me, I loved it as well. It was well written and fun. It is fast paced with interesting characters and comic heroes. I am a big fan of comics and super heroes and have been for years. This scratched the itch perfectly and had the added bonus of bringing my son and I closer together. I HIGHLY recommend this book and we can't wait for the next two to come to Audible! Thank you Richard Roberts!
An amazing book with bad-ass characters.
I don't generally like children books, but this book is so well written that it would have to be my second favorite book.
Audible needs to please release numbers 2 and 3 for this series.
loved it
goofy, zany, funny. loved the whole book and idea behind it. altho, i really do feel so sorry for penny. i wish i could go into details but anything i say will spoil some part and this book is too good to do that to. you'll either have to listen to it or go get a hard copy to read.