Description
When these tweens team up, nothing can stop them!
Rikki Jones is your average middle-grader. Her fellow-orphan-turned-adopted-brother Ross is, too. The seven mystical monks training them to protect the Earth from dark supernatural forces are pretty standard adults-they want nothing more than a little peace over summer vacation and all their prior attempts to get the kids out of town led to the camps going out of business. So this year? Rikki and Ross are heading to the town library, where Zatanna Zatara took a camp counselor job she expects to regret.
And Rikki's very normal. Everyone wants to investigate mysterious and strange events that could also mean the end of the world. Right? Everyone gathers a band of rogues and weirdoes to help. That's just how friendship works!
It's fate (not like, Dr. Fate, just regular fate) that brings her together with Danny Cassidy, the Blue Devil. He's got ADHD and kinda fused with his Halloween costume, giving him demon powers. And Boston Brand, who died in a horrifying microfiche accident and roams the halls as Deadkid. And don't forget June Moon, who changes into an incredibly powerful sorceress named The Enchantress. But don't hold that against her, she's really very sweet when she's not causing trouble.
Review
Orphans Rikki and Ross always get sent to summer camps during the holidays by the seven monks that are raising them to fight against evil magic.
But each year disaster strikes, and with no camp left for them they have to go to the town library each day to join in with their summer program. Luckily, the program has a group of somewhat magical misfits to keep them company!
Danny (aka the Blue Devil) who was stuck by lightning, Boston Brand (aka the Deadkid) who was killed in the library in a freak microfiche accident, and June Moon (aka the Enchantress) just to name a few. But will they be enough to confront the evil force that is assembling in their very library?
This is an easy to read graphic novel, with just a touch of scariness, that will entertain readers aged from 8 to 12 years.
