Hero

Description:

Fourteen-year-old Billy learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Billy must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.

subjects: Fathers and sons in fiction,  Death,  Family life,  Fathers and sons,  Family life in fiction,  Practical Politics,  Death in fiction,  Heroes in fiction,  Heroes,  Fiction,  Practical politics in fiction,  Families,  Heroes and heroines,  Juvenile fiction,  Father-son relationship,  Politics,  Superheroes,  nyt:chapter-books=2010-12-05,  New York Times bestseller

Places: New York (State),  New York (N.Y.),  New York