Book Reveiw I: Hero 💪

Hero, by Mike Lupica, is about a boy named Zach, who lived in New York City. He loved his dad a lot, but his dad was always on business trips because he worked for the president. One day, his dad went on another trip. His plane crashed on the way back, and he died. Zach didn't know because he was walking home from school, but he felt like something was wrong. A while later, he sneaked to the crash site. When he was there, he found his dad's Morgan (an expensive and lucky coin), and he met this old man who appeared randomly, he talked in riddles, and when he left, Zach chased him, but he just disappeared. He just kept on running and his and his dad's Morgans started glowing and burning, and all of a sudden, he was home. He and his best friend, Kate, figured out that he had super powers! The old man came back and started teaching him how to use his super powers. Zach started having random bad guys show up and try to hurt him, and the last one had him going to the hospital. His mom worked for Senator Kerigain, so he had to go to his speech. He was standing backstage, when he saw a guy with a gun pointed at the future president. Right as the person pulled the trigger, Zach pushed the president down, and the bullet missed him, but he shot another one that missed Zach because the old man appeared out of nowhere and pushed him down. Afterwards, he walked away and found the old man sitting against a tree, but he had been shot. He told him he was his grandfather before he died. In the end, Zach was very confident that he was a good superhero, and that he would fight bad guys.

         One of the main themes in the book is that you can't trust everybody. An example of how this theme is shown is when Zach looked at his computer screen and it said trust no one. "He was about to answer her when he looked back at his computer screen. It was then he saw the message. "Trust no one"(186). Another reason is that his grandfather never told him he was his grandfather until he died. "Your- your grandson..." Zach knew he was stammering"(280). One last reason is that his uncle John betrayed him. "I know one thing" Zach said . I finally know what the devil looks like. "He's the one you trust and then he betrays you" (288). That is why one of the themes in the book is you can't trust everybody.

        I would recommend this book to other 7th grade readers, because it is an awesome book. There are a lot of books out in the world, but this one was really good. Some people like hard books, and some people like easy books. Well, this book is in the middle, so most 7th graders would like it. That is why I would recommend this book to 7th graders.

        Mike Lupica has written several other books. Some of them are listed here, Travel Team, Heat, Summer Ball, Miracle on 49th Street, The Big Field, Million Dollar Throw, and Bat Boy. I haven't read any of those, but I might someday. He has written a ton of books.

This is where I got the picturehttp://susanfieldswriter.blogspot.com/2010/12/book-review-hero-by-mike-lupica_09.html

This is Mike Lupica's official website http://www.mikelupicabooks.com/