Description:
When evil supervillain Tastemaker hatches a diabolical plot to control people's taste buds, causing everything (except fried octopus and toothpaste) to taste like broccoli, it looks like only Maximum Boy can save the day. Maximum Boy, a.k.a. Max Silver, is an ordinary 11-year-old kid with glasses and braces who accidentally touched space rocks in a museum a few years ago and is now imbued with superpowers. Having just returned from saving Manhattan from the wicked Dr. Zirkon (in The Hijacking of Manhattan), Maximum Boy is sitting down to dinner when the president of the United States calls him with yet another assignment. Before he knows it, our intrepid hero is flying across the country, eating his pizza to go, on his way to save the world from a horrendous destiny: broccoli--morning, noon, and night. But can he save himself and his aging superhero friend, Tortoise Man, from Tastemaker's next scheme: turning them into human gourmet sausages (wrapped in pancakes, with hickory-smoke flavoring)? Not if his fateful allergies to sweet potatoes, dairy, and math get in the way! Max is an Everykid hero--always picked last for sports, hopeless in math, and the passive victim of the school bully, Trevor Fartmeister. As a superhero, he has the opportunity to crush bigtime bullies. Dan Greenburg, author of the popular Zack Files series, has produced another fast-paced series guaranteed to inspire chuckles and a yen for the next title in the sequence, Superhero...or Super Thief?. (Ages 7 to 11) --Emilie Coulter
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