āReadersā¦will be enamored by this blend of history, mystery, and superpowered action.ā āBooklist (starred review)
āHas the exciting pace of a superhero adventure.ā āKirkus Reviews
Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman in this action-packed, comic-inspired adventure about a brilliant girl puzzler who discovers sheās part of a superhero teamāthe first in a new series!
Josie OāMalley does a lot to help out Mam after her father goes off to fight the Nazis, but she wishes she could do moreālike all those caped heroes who now seem to have disappeared. If Josie canāt 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 sheās 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 girlsā 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 whoāve recently gone missing.
Inspired by remarkable real-life women from World War IIāthe human computers and earliest programmers called āthe ENIAC Sixāāthis 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!