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Seventh-grade Superheroes!It's not easy being a twelve-year-old superhero, but the five kids of the Neighborhood Watch are doing the best they can. La Capitána: super-strong flier. Wheels: brilliant inventor. Hothead: catches on fire. Breezy: controls wind. Rascal: super-skateboarding. From their headquarters built into a repurposed Winnebago, they patrol the streets…


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It can be difficult negotiating the ups and downs of being a preteen. It can be even harder when you’re a parahuman, trying to build a reputation as a superhero, in a quiet town where hardly anything happens. 

Annalisa’s troubles are compounded because, while her team, The Neighbourhood Watch, is smart and ambitious, the other pre-teen superhero team in town, Culture Club, gets to every incident faster.

To make matters worse, Culture Club is a team of rich triplets who bully The Neighbourhood Watch members, and who have a television journalist father who is always on hand to publicise their…

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