We're sharing an excerpt today from YA superhero fantasy novel "The Madrona Heroes Register". Enjoy the excerpt!
Book Excerpt
“They're just
gonna cut him all up.” The young boy said to the man. The man responded “Would
you like to spend some time alone with him?” The lines from the movie that Jay
and Cassie were watching floated over to where Binny and Julie were standing in
silence. Just listening.
Cassie turned to
Jay on the couch and asked “Is he dead?”
Elliot, the boy
from the movie responded, “Look at what they've done to you. I'm so sorry. You
must be dead, 'cause I don't know how to feel. I can't feel anything anymore.
You've gone someplace else now. I'll believe in you all my life, every day.
E.T., I love you.”
“I don’t
understand, why would they cut him all up?” Cassie asked.
Jay paused the
movie, “For science honey. In the movie, the government wants to learn how
E.T.’s body works.”
“So they can
figure out his super powers? How he makes things fly?” Cassie wondered.
“Yeah,” Jay
nodded slowly and seriously.
“But won’t that
kill E.T.?”, Cassie worried, her eyes widening.
“Well, it looks
like he’s already dead, darling.” Jay said, and then added as an afterthought,
“But to be honest, the government would probably cut him all up even if he was
alive. People aren’t often as gentle as they need to be with living things that
are different and special.”
“Oh.” Cassie
seemed to be thinking.
Jay unpaused the
movie.
As E.T.’s heart
started beating Cassie got excited, “he’s alive Daddy. E.T.’s alive.”
“I know baby. But
that only happens in the movies. In real life, when the bad guys kill you
trying to figure out what makes you tick, you don’t come back to life.”
About the Book
Title: The
Madrona Heroes Register
Author: Hillel
Cooperman
Genre: YA
Superhero Fantasy
Someone in ten-year-old Binny Jordan’s
family has a super power – and it’s not her. Binny’s seven-year-old sister
Cassie can turn herself invisible and now a strange man is keenly interested in
what Cassie can do. Binny’s parents seem more distracted than ever, and her
older brother Zach is hiding something of his own. Binny needs to find a way to
protect her sister, but she’s never felt more alone.
Author Bio
Hillel Cooperman has pretended to be a superhero since he was a small child.
He conceived of the story of the Madrona Heroes in the summer of 2012 on a trip
abroad with his family. By winter, he had started writing in earnest. He lives
in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle with his three children, their three
cats, and thousands of Lego bricks. His superpower is procrastination. The
Madrona Heroes Register is his first novel.
Links
Twitter: @madronaheroes
Available in four parts from Amazon (for Kindle):
Part One: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW0HREU/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2
Part Two: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW0IQTA/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3
Part Three: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW0W60U/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3
Part Four: http://www.amazon.com/The-Madrona-Heroes-Register-Part-ebook/dp/B00FW11WXQ/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1
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