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Who has It: Joliet Public Library Main and Joliet Black Road Branch
Call Number: Teen Fiction Moore
Summary: Thom Creed's father was once Major Might, a well known superhero until an accident turned everyone against him. Now even the word hero is banned from the house as Thom and his father try their best to live a normal life.
But Thom has secrets of his own, for one he's gay, and for the second, he has been asked to join the League of Heroes, the same organization that turned against his father. Now Thom has to hide who he is, while at the time trying to discover who is killing off members of the League.
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