Forester, Victoria The Boy Who Knew Everything, 406
pages. Feiwel (Macmillan), 2015. $16.
Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (mild).
Piper and Conrad are back on Piper’s family farm, living a
fairly quiet life, until the ennui gets to Conrad and he realizes that he needs
to control the training and rescue work of the whole group of super-powered
friends before they all get into real trouble.
These activities keep the group motivated and active, until enemies come
in the form of Conrad’s mother arrives and asks for his help in finding his
missing little sister.
Why does Forester take her book in such an odd
direction? The second half of the book
feels as if it is from an entirely separate series and contains a villain
larger and more dangerous than either Letitia Hellion or Conrad’s father. The abrupt change in characters and focus was
so wrenching for me that I had to reread both books in the series quickly in
order to make my brain believe what I had just read. If this were the first book in the series, I
would have given it a NO.
EL, MS – OPTIONAL.
Cindy, Library teacher
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