num_pages: 288
description: John David Anderson returns to the world he created in Sidekicked with an entirely new cast of characters-this time the villains-in a funny and emotional companion to his first breakout tween novel.Michael Morn might be a villain but he's really not a bad guy. When you live in New Liberty known across the country as the City without a Super there are only two kinds of people after all: those who turn to crime and those who suffer. Michael and his adoptive father spend their days building boxes-special devices with mysterious abilities that they sell to the mob at a price. They provide for each other they look out for each other and they'd never betray each other. In New Liberty a city torn apart by the divide between the rich and the poor the moral and the immoral this is as much of a family as anyone could ever hope for.But then a Super comes to town a mysterious blue streak in the sky known only as the Comet and Michael's world is thrown into disarray. The Comet could destroy everything Michael and his dad have built the safe and secure life they've made for themselves in a city where safety and security are scarce. And now Michael and his father face a choice: to hold tight to their life or to let it unravel.John David Anderson author of the acclaimed Sidekicked has written another story set in an America where superheroes and supervillains are commonplace but where the line between right and wrong good and evil is still not any less elusive.
language: English
title: Minion
publisher: Walden Pond Press