Secret Hero
Society: Science Fair Crisis by Derek Fridolfs, Pamela Lovas, and Shane Clester is a book aimed
at the middle school or pre-teen reader.
It comes to readers from the DC Universe and features the superheroes
when they were kids and members of the “Junior Detective Club.” The members
include Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and other
superheroes when they were kids and investigating mysteries around their
school. Secret Hero Society: Science Fair is the fourth book in the
series and this time the science fair is at risk because somebody keeps sabotaging
it.
The story is
presented through various ways by using letters, illustrations, journal writings,
texts, emails and more. This book is fun and has an enjoyable story
featuring cameos of good and bad people from the DC Universe where here they
are students, teachers, and more. There are various jokes made that if a person
is familiar with the DC universe are funny. While the artwork in this one is
not nearly as good as the earlier books, the characterizations established
earlier in the series remains true
Therefore, it does
make sense that a middle school aged Batman is very interested in forensic
science and is always very secretive and a young Aquaman is interested in sea
life and is part of the swim team. This deal works with the adults as well
as James Gordon, instead of being a police captain, is a strict and fair principal.
Alec Holland (aka Swamp Thing) is a biology teacher with a focus on plants. One
of the PE teachers is the mercenary known as Sports Master and is really good
at sports. Here he is on the straight and narrow. In the comics where he is
also really good at sports, he wears a hockey mask and uses his sports skills
to commit crimes.
Basically, this
book and series is just a kid appropriate version of the Justice League. In these
tales, the authors deal with subjects important to the primary reading audience
such as bullying and other school problems. Those issues are raised in the
background while a pretty good mystery keeps kids reading. If you have a child
who likes mysteries and the DC Universe, this kid friendly story would be a
good match. Secret Hero Society: Science Fair Crisis by Derek Fridolfs,
Pamela Lovas, and Shane Clester is just fun.
This October, the
fifth book in the series titled, Secret Hero Society: The Field Trip Disaster
by this same writing and artwork team. The series begins with the 2016 book, The
Study Hall of Justice.
Secret Hero Society: Science Fair Crisis
Derek Fridolfs, Pamela Lovas, Shane Clester
Scholastic
2019
ISBN#978-1-338-27328-1
Hardback (also available in paperback and digital formats)
176 Pages
$12.99
Material supplied
by the good folks of the Dallas Public Library System. My copy came from the
Skillman Southwestern Branch.
Scott A. Tipple ©2019
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