The Minor Miracle

The Minor Miracle by Meredith Davis, and Billy Yong, When Noah was a baby, he survived a miraculous fall from a sixteen-story balcony. But life has been pretty boring ever since. As Noah starts seventh grade, he’s hoping to live not such a boring life, his hope to have an extraordinary change. Best friends Rodney is a trumpet prodigy, and Haley is basically perfect, but Noah, not so much. That is until he takes a standard vision test and learns he can manipulate gravity and is recruited to train with Gravitas, a top-secret government agency! Noah is sure life is now going to be awesome, when actually he’s about to run into a whole bunch of problems. The biggest problem: His great-uncle Saul is on Gravitas’s most wanted list_but might also be the only person who can help Noah reach his full potential. Paperback, 288 pages. Recommended for ages 8 to 12 years old.