Solving crimes is NOT my superpower

The people of Walsham all have special powers (some are more useful than others: the postal worker has 8 elongating arms, but the mayor does multicoloured farts!) except for 10-year-old Sara, who is the last in Year 5 to find out what they can do.  It’s worse for her, as her parents are superheroes, and a ‘lift’ to school involves being flown in Mum’s arms, which is SO embarrassing. When the  school football trophy is stolen, Sara  decides she will solve the mystery, with or without powers… Her best friend, Georgie, is Captain of the school football team, and they have never lost a match yet, but Georgie is afraid that without the trophy, which they see as their good luck charm,  they might just lose. As the trophy turns out to be the reason the people of Walsham have their powers, things start going wrong in all sorts of ways.  Can Sara discover her superpower in the nick of time?

There is a lot of fun in this book, indeed, it’s often laugh-out-loud hilarious and we need more humour in children’s books. Award-winning author Nathanael Lessore is an excellent writer, on exactly the right wavelength his readers.