![]() ![]() ![]() What's most similar is actually the tone, more than the story itself. Now, there are certainly a few shades of Harry Potter obviously, like the cake, but The Ability does not read like a retelling. ![]() After his test, the proctor presents him with a surprise birthday cake. But, thankfully, salvation comes in the form of a test to study at an elite, strange prep school, Myers Holt Academy, which Chris passes with flying colors. He struggles in school, marked as a troublemaker and is finally expelled for a weird incident where he somehow beats up a bully without touching him. Like so many scrappy heroes, everything falls to Chris. The main hero of The Ability is young Christopher Lane, just turning twelve years old and at wit's end for how to take care of himself and his mother, ruined by the death of his father. The Ability is a darker-than-usual middle grade novel with humor and action aplenty. Still, for all that I'm not likely to find something as amazing as Harry Potter is, my middle grade choices have yet to fail me. Perhaps it's because I grew up reading Harry Potter, and am still on the hunt for that elusive book that will mean as much to me, though I know that will likely not happen, because I'm an adult now and less able to appreciate the magic. I am a total sucker for middle grade novels about special schools and kids with powers. ![]()
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