Name: Pizazz
ISBN: 9781534492424

Sophy Henn

Nine-year-old superhero Pizazz relates how difficult it is to be a superhero, especially when, after moving to a new school, she is made "eco monitor" for her class.

Pizazz

Candyce Kirk

Almost being a teenager isn't easy, but when you're at a new school and come from a family of superheroes life can be a challenge. Our main character Pizazz is trying to figure everything out. That's not easy though when you're trying to make friends, save the world and just fit in.


Pizazz comes from a long line of superheroes and feels the urgency to help save the world from super villains that show up at the most annoying times. Life gets just a bit harder when you're embarrassed about your abilities when the rest of your family can do all of the cool stuff. I love that she wasn't perfect and clearly had some flaws. Superheroes don't normally appear this way in all of the movies and cartoons out there.


I loved the mix of adventure and just simple middle school stuff. Pizazz switched schools and is having a hard time keeping in touch with her friends from her old school and trying to make new ones. Especially so when she thinks her sister is so much cooler than her. Add in being on a committee to help save the park near school and life gets busy.


Pizazz is full of lessons of growing up, making friends, accepting/liking who you are, family and standing up for what you believe in. This book does that with really fun illustrations and by playing around with the font and size of words. We're all special and unique and that's not a bad thing. I think children will really like this book.

Jessica Nottingham

Ah, it has been a good while since I have had the opportunity to devour a good middle grade/transitioning reader book. They are always so much fun! There’s something brilliant about the mix between stellar illustrations, stylized fonts, and the base story. It makes books like Pizazz that perfect bridge for kids who love graphic novels, but want something with a little more story. I will fully admit, I’m almost 37 years old and I still love them too! Who doesn’t love to giggle at a good gross out joke?

So it should be no surprise to you, my dear reader friends, that I thoroughly enjoyed my romp through this book! Pizazz is absolutely adorable, although she would probably roll her eyes at me for saying so. As most kids her age would feel, she is lost after being taken away from her hometown and her best friends. If it wasn’t enough that she has to deal with being a superhero (which is exhausting and only cool sometimes), now she’s caught up in a new school as well. How is anyone supposed to make friends when they’re constantly being dragged away in the middle of the night to stop silly baddies?

Oh, and the baddies in this book are quite silly. There are a lot of giggle worthy points in this story, but the superhero fights get the crown. See, Pizazz does not like her super power. In a family full of people with amazing powers, and equally amazing super suits, she feels like she’s lesser. So in each fight she refuses to use it and, well, let’s just say that the outcome is very funny. Are you curious what Pizazz’s super power actually is? Good. Read this book! It’s worth your time!

I so very much recommend this to all the young readers out there! Pizazz’s story is funny, sweet, and full of some very important lessons as well! If you’re a parent who has a reader that loves Captain Underpants and Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Welcome to your new favorite series.

Pizazz

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