Content: G (mild danger, deaths mentioned)
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
For the last three years, Birdie and the other kids have been raised only by Louis, Birdie and Brix’s father. Now Louis is dead and they will have to figure how to survive in the jungles of Estero alone – five kids from 13 to 8. Then Birdie finds a hidden message and map from her father – and she needs to go across the bay and into the city, because her mother may still be alive. But Birdie and the others all have superpowers that they inherited from their supervillain parents, and Estero has no kindness for their kind.
The set-up drags a bit, but with enough oddities and danger to keep interest. Once they reach the city, I did love watching the kids raised in a jungle try to cope with all the newness of a city. Perhaps we have a new group of superheroes.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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