It All Started When...

In the book called Sidekicks by Jack D. Ferraiolo, we meet a 13 year-old Scott Hutchinson a.k.a. Bright Boy. He has been sidekick of one of the cities most important hero Phantom Justice a.k.a. Trent Clancy who is also his legal guardian. These book narrates the like like of Scott in school as a normal kid and in action as a sidekick. Scott has been emmbarased in front of TV while he was saving a woman from falling down a building. At school everyone is talking of Bright Boy and making fun of him because of his yellow outfit. Scott is not a popular guy nor he has a lot of friends, in other words he is lonely. At night him and Phantom Justice are trying to stop a villian called Dr. Chaotic and his sidekick Monkeywrench. Bright Boy and Phantom Justice are having a hard time defeating these two villains. The next day in school Scott is very tired about what happened last night that he falls asleep. When class is over a girl called Olivia Duchamp wakes up Scott worried if something has happened to him, everything was nice until she confused Scott´s name and call him Steve. Furious, Scott plans how to defeat his nemesis Monkeywrench. 

I´m tired, and not thinking straight, but I´m also frustrated. I´m this close to flipping around the hallway, leaping onto the celling, then yelling into all their faces, "I´m Bright Boy! I always have been! I´ve been right here under your noses!" I want them to see up close what I´m capable of...just how fast and strong I am, because they seme to have no idea how far out of their league I am. [61] 

I feel that Scott is too young to live a double life as a sidekick, him at his age needs to have more friends and have a normal life as a 13 year-old. He is not ready yet to have that secret and want it to shout it out loud. 

"Hello, Snot," he says, as if changing my name from Scott to Snot is still the funniest thing anyone has ever done ever. His friends laugh as if to confirm it...again. I sigh...again. I know the most painful thing about this encounter for me is going to be Jake´s "jokes." 
"Get outta here," he tells the other kids. They all leave without a second thought. "What are you doing in my hallway, Snot?" [62] 


I think that since Scott is busy as Bright Boy he do not have time to share with his classmates and even make friends. Many people bully him because he is lonely an quiet. 



What I think is going to happend later in the book is that Bright Boy and Phantom Justice are going to defeat Dr. Chaotic and Monkeywrench and also that Scott finally makes a new friend. Join me on my next blog post to find out what really happened with Scott and Bright Boy.