The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks #3: Red Alert

by Jake Bell

Sixth grade's a lot more fun when your teacher is a superhero!

It's winter break, and Nate has finally begun his training to become a superhero sidekick. The only problem is that Nate has to keep his training a secret from his best friends, Teddy and Fiona. While Doctor Nocturne is busy training Nate and helping Ultraviolet (aka Ms. Matthews) set up a top-secret underground lair beneath Nate's school, supervillian Red Malice is gearing up to attack the East Coast with an enormous tractor beam! Will Nate and his friends be able to stop Red Malice before it's too late?

176 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

About the author

When Jake Bell first declared his intention to become an author when he was seven years old, his mother offered him one piece of advice in pursuing his dream: "Make sure you get a good day job." In the years that followed, Jake found work as a TV sports anchor, a radio disc jockey, a stagehand, a movie studio intern, a file clerk at a law office, an NFL scoreboard operator, a bagel baker, a stockboy in a woman's clothing store, a marketing consultant, a pipefitter, a magician, a cameraman, and an amusement park bathroom cleaner.

Unfortunately, he wasn't getting much writing done. So, during a stint of unemployment, he sat down and wrote SECRET IDENTITY CRISIS, the first book in the AMAZING ADVENTURES OF NATE BANKS series.

Jake lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his two kids, from whom he regularly poaches idea for his books.