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Title: HERO
Author: Perry Moore
Plot Outline: Thom Creed is a high school basketball player living a seemingly normal life, but he harbours two significant secrets: he possesses special healing powers and he is gay. His father, a disgraced ex-superhero, disapproves of homosexuality and has forbidden any talk of superheroes in their home. After an incident reveals his powers, Thom is invited to join the League, an organization his father was once a part of, where he connects with other aspiring misfit heroes. Together, they must uncover a deadly conspiracy within the League while Thom navigates self-acceptance and confronts his father's past.
Awards and Reviews: *HERO* won a Lambda Literary Award in 2008 for the best LGBT Children's/Young Adult novel. Publishers Weekly noted the book for expanding the genre of gay literature into superhero fantasy, though it also stated the novel "misses its mark, with an abundance of two-dimensional characters and contrived situations." The gay newsmagazine, *The Advocate*, applauded Moore's original superhero characters and his decision to avoid making Thom Creed an outcast.
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBT, Superheroes.
Book Type: Paper Back
Year First Published: 2007
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