"Readers...will be enamored by this blend of history, mystery, and
superpowered action." --Booklist (starred review)
"Has the exciting pace of a superhero adventure." --Kirkus
Reviews
Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman in this action-packed,
comic-inspired adventure about a brilliant girl puzzler who discovers
she's part of a superhero team--the first in a new series!
Josie O'Malley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to
fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could do more--like all those caped
heroes who now seem to have disappeared. If Josie can't fly and control
weather like her idol, Zenobia, maybe she can put her math smarts to use
cracking puzzles for the government.
After an official tosses out her puzzler test because she's a girl, it
soon becomes clear that an even more top-secret agency has its eye on
Josie, along with two other applicants: Akiko and Mae. The trio bonds
over their shared love of female superhero celebrities, from Hauntima to
Zenobia to Hopscotch. But during one extraordinary afternoon, they find
themselves transformed into the newest (and youngest!) superheroes in
town. As the girls' abilities slowly begin to emerge, they learn that
their skills will be crucial in thwarting a shapeshifting henchman of
Hitler, and, just maybe, in solving an even larger mystery about the
superheroes who've recently gone missing.
Inspired by remarkable real-life women from World War II--the human
computers and earliest programmers called "the ENIAC Six"--this
pulse-pounding adventure features bold action and brave thinking, with
forty-eight pages of comic book style graphic panels throughout the
book. Readers will want to don their own capes for an adventure, and
realize they have the power to be a superhero, too!
