A review by kketelaar
Powerless by Matthew Cody
5.0
My nine-year-old finished this book and begged me to read it; and I am certainly glad I took his advice. This is an excellent story. It contains great characters and lots of action but, more importantly, there was an underlying message that people should always strive to be the best version of themselves and take responsibility for their own actions. I am giving it five stars because of my son's response to it.
I was surprised that it wasn't rated higher in GR, but after reading some of the reviews I think that this may be because people are evaluating this as a YA read - which it is not. This book is about a fifth grade reading level (my soon-to-be-fourth-grader flew through it) so to compare it to a Stephanie Meyer's book or the Hunger Games series (as reviewer's have) is definitely an apples to oranges effort. An excellent book for 4th-6th graders (give or take a grade), but might seem silly to the 14 and older crowd.
I was surprised that it wasn't rated higher in GR, but after reading some of the reviews I think that this may be because people are evaluating this as a YA read - which it is not. This book is about a fifth grade reading level (my soon-to-be-fourth-grader flew through it) so to compare it to a Stephanie Meyer's book or the Hunger Games series (as reviewer's have) is definitely an apples to oranges effort. An excellent book for 4th-6th graders (give or take a grade), but might seem silly to the 14 and older crowd.