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The Ability (2013)

by M.M. Vaughan(Favorite Author)
4.18 of 5 Votes: 6
ISBN
1442452005 (ISBN13: 9781442452008)
languge
English
publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
series
The Ability
review 1: 12-year-old Christopher Lane gets in trouble at school. The teachers and the headmaster hate him, and his home life is terrible. His father is dead and his mother has been grieving for several years, won’t leave the house, and Chris is trying to keep it together. So, when the offer comes to go to a full tuition scholarship, special school to hone and train his “ability”, Chris accepts! It’s a small school, with only a few other students, and they receive the royal treatment, but can the children learn to control their abilities in time to save the Prime Minister? The first book in The Ability series, I’d hoped it would be more interesting, that the premise would develop better, that it would be better written.
review 2: Book Review for The Ability"
... moreGreat, intriguing book and a good intro to a new series."Christopher is having a hard time in school, his social life, and family life. Being an only child with an ungrateful mom and a dead dad is hard. He gets teased in school and has no money. He struggles and struggles until one day a woman called Ms. Sonata comes to his school. He takes a test and aces it. He then gets offered to go to Myers Holt school to be trained and enrich his special--Ability... less
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Xman
Beautifully written with mystery. I loved the way this book captured me.
FATCOW
very, very Harry Potter-like but not as good as it
giraffelover1996
WHAT A GREAT MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE. SO GOOD.
haefnera
4W got this book talk first.
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