Actually Super by Adi Alsaid

Actually Super

Adi Alsaid

Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · August 22, 2023

A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Actually Super.

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Who it’s for
For when you want a realistic, steady read with movement and heart.
Genres
Superheroes, Car & Road Trips, Coming of Age
Published
Random House Children's Books, August 22, 2023

About this book

A globetrotting novel that takes a determined teen from Japan to Australia and to Argentina and Mexico on a quest to prove that humanity is more good than bad from the author of Let’s Get Lost and Before Takeoff. Isabel is having an existential crisis. She’s three years into high school, and everything she’s learned has only shaken her faith in humanity.

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Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet—a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense—these are real people, just like each of us, but who happen to have a power or two. If Isabel can find them, she reasons, she might be able to prove to herself that humanity is more good than bad. So, the day she turns 18, she sets off on a journey that will take her from Japan to Australia, and from Argentina to Mexico, with many stops along the way. She longs to prove one—just one—super exists to restore her hope for the future. Will she find what she’s looking for? And how will she know when—if—she does?

Why This Clicks

For when you want a realistic, steady read with movement and heart.

Come here for

  • road-trip energy, with the focus on feeling your way forward
  • a YA alternative-family story that stays grounded

Expect

  • an immersive, sustained narrative
  • identity and footing without tidy self-help gloss

Where it sits

Superheroes97%
Coming of Age69%
Car & Road Trips47%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Coming of Age
  • Superheroes
  • Car & Road Trips
Authors
Adi Alsaid
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
August 22, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Coming of Age