Title: Kinetic
First published: August 1, 2005
Description: Seventeen year-old Tom Morrell is sickly and a loser. His mother loves him and smothers him. His classmates pity him and call him "Gimp." His only escape is in reading about the adventures of his favorite comic-book hero, Kinetic--until, that is, he starts developing powers of his own.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Fiction, Mothers and sons, Man-woman relationships