Narrator: Kyle McCarley
People with special talents or powers are divided into Supers and Powereds. Supers can control their gifts and are the elites, the ones people admire, most of the time. Even when their gifts are kind of stupid, almost useless. Powereds are looked down on. They have gifts, the ability to fly or control energy or shift shape -- but no control. That makes them dangerous. They're looked down on by Supers and pretty much the rest of the world.
There are certification programs offered at universities for Supers to become licensed heroes. This means they're safe from being sued if, for example, in the course of saving the city from alien invasion, a few buildings get knocked over and people get hurt.
What happens when a few Powereds have a chance to "fix" their control problem, pass themselves off as Supers, and attend the certification program to become heroes? That's what this book, and the series, is about. Alice can fly, Vince absorbs energy, like fire and electricity, Herschel changes into his muscle-bound alter-ago Roy, Mary is the most powerful telepath ever born, and Nick can manipulate luck. Their first year of school, sharing a dorm and figuring out where they fit in, makes for some fun, sad, frustrating, even touching adventures.
Kudos to the narrator for managing to give individual voices to the cast of hundreds!
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