| ISBN |
9781534439122 (paperback) |
| Name |
Hannigan, Kate author. |
| Title |
Cape / by Kate Hannigan ; illustrated by Patrick Spaziante. |
| Published |
New York, New York : Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2020. |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
326 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Some chapters are written as comics. |
| Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Josie O'Malley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could do more--like all those caped heroes who now seem to have disappeared. If Josie can't fly and control weather like her idol, Zenobia, maybe she can put her math smarts to use cracking puzzles for the government. After an official tosses out her puzzler test because she's a girl, it soon becomes clear that an even more top-secret agency has its eye on Josie, along with two other applicants: Akiko and Mae. The trio bonds over their shared love of female superhero celebrities, from Hauntima to Zenobia to Hopscotch. But during one extraordinary afternoon, they find themselves transformed into the newest (and youngest!) superheroes in town. As the girls' abilities slowly begin to emerge, they learn that their skills will be crucial in thwarting a shapeshifting henchman of Hitler, and, just maybe, in solving an even larger mystery about the superheroes who've recently gone missing. |
| Target audience note |
8-12 years. |
| Subjects |
Superheroes -- Juvenile fiction |
| Computers -- Juvenile fiction |
| Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre |
Action and adventure fiction |
| Spy fiction |
| Superhero fiction |
| Other Names |
Spaziante, Patrick illustrator. |
| Series |
League of secret heroes 01. |
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