Wanted: A Superhero to Save the World (Wanted: Superheroes #1) (Bryan Davis)

Wanted: A Superhero to Save the World

Wanted: Superheros  Book 1

Eddie Hertz is a 12-year-old genius who patrols the streets of Nirvana, hoping to foil the schemes of the evil Mephisto. Being small for his age, Eddie relies on a Batman-style gadgets belt and acrobatic skills as well as street smarts and ingenuity.

Eddie has a dream, to become like Damocles, Nirvana’s great superhero. To accomplish that goal, Eddie invented a device that theoretically will endow him with superpowers, but using it on himself could be dangerous, maybe even fatal, so he doesn’t have the nerve to try it.

When Mephisto unleashes an earthquake machine to terrorize the city, Eddie gains a surprising ally – his quirky eight-year-old sister, Samantha, who comes up with an unexpected way to help in the frantic battle to prevent the impending destruction.

Working as a team, the siblings fight Mephisto in a race against time to save Nirvana and the world from devastating earthquakes, all the while receiving advice from a computerized version of Damocles, who has been rendered incapable of helping in physical form.

Recommended for ages 8 and up.

About the Author: 

Bryan Davis is the author of many youth fiction novels, including the Dragons in Our Midst, Oracles of Fire, Children of the Bard, and Wanted: Superheroes series. After working as a computer geek for 20 years, Bryan followed a dream to become an author. He began by writing a story to motivate his seven children to gain some excitement about writing, and that story grew into a novel. After spending the next eight years learning the craft and enduring more than 200 rejections from publishers and agents, he broke through with his best-selling series Dragons in Our Midst. He is now a full-time author and lives with his wife, Susie, and their children in western Tennessee.