Book summaryWith the help of a wisecracking, steampunk robot, two accidental superheroes discover that they have inherited some amazing, if unusual, abilities. Computer whiz Megan can fly (mostly sleep-flying, but she’s working on it) while her best friend Cam can (in theory) transform into any animal, but mostly ends up as a were-hamster.

Together they must protect the source of their ancestral powers from a wannabe evil mastermind and his gang of industrial transformer robots who’ve disguised themselves as modern art installations on their Greenock estate.

Can Megan and Cam beat the bad guy, defeat his robot transformers and become the superheroes they were born to be?

INDIVIDUAL WORKMash it up!List four to five of your favourite things and different interests then combine two that wouldn’t normally go together. They don’t need to relate to each other at all, in fact it is better if they don’t! Some ideas include:

• Favorite holiday destination

• Favorite sport or sport team

• Favorite animals

• Favorite superhero

Think of plot ideas and write a short paragraph using your mash-up of favourite things/interests.

GROUP WORKStop, Look, and Listen & Question EverythingSplit into groups of two or three and research and interesting facts about your local area. What makes your town unique?

• Historical events

• Local facts

• Local landmarks

Discuss your findings and how you might use them in a superhero story about your own town. What you can add to make your story more ‘superpowered’? Some examples include:

• Villains

• A natural disaster

• Gadgets

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Vocabulary• Checkyouknowwhatthefollowingwordsmean(pagenumbersofexamplewordsinbrackets):

Vellum (11)

Compromised (57)

Demolition (78)

Embankment (122)

Makeshift (128)

Retract (128)

Guardian (133)

Eerie (248)

Autumnal (139)

Tarmac (167)

Crypt (181)

Aerial (183)

Sigil (185)

Self-conscious (192)

Conspicuous (194)

Archaic (195)

Camouflage (205)

Monolith (224)

Kelpies Series SummaryThe award-winning Kelpies series is Scotland’s favourite collection of children’s fiction. Floris Books took over the list in 2001, republishing classic works by authors such as Kathleen Fidler, Mollie Hunter and Allan Campbell McLean. Since then, Floris has continued to add to the series with a range of successful new Scottish novels for children including books by Janis Mackay, Lari Don, Ross MacKenzie, Robert Harris and Alex McCall.

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FURTHER READINGIf you enjoyed The Superpower Project, you might also like Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens by Alex McCall which won the Scottish Children’s Book Award in 2015 and is the prequel to Revenge of the Giant Robot Chickens.

Giant robot chickens are terrorising the city of Aberdeen. Their aim: to peck out all signs of human resistance.

The streets are empty, the adults have vanished and those left behind must hide from the powerful poultry or get scrambled!

Jesse and his friends hatch a plot to stop the fowl fiends and take back their city… but when a gang of kids take on an army of angry robot chickens, things don’t eggs-actly go to plan.

Life in chicken apocalypse isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!

Have you read The Day the World Went Loki by Robert J. Harris? It is a mischief-filled Norse god adventure set in St Andrews and the first book in the hilarious The World’s Gone Loki trilogy.

Lewis and Greg might have accidentally turned their mum into a seven-foot tall green monster and their best friend into a yeti – but it wasn’t their fault!

All they did was recite an ancient rhyme. Now St Andrews looks more like Middle Earth and Loki (Yeah, that Loki, the Norse god of mischief!) says the world will stay this way forever.

But how will the brothers stop him with a gang of angry Valkyries on their tail? Can two ordinary boys outwit the god of mayhem?