What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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A Dark Inheritance
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SOLVED. Fantasy. Boy discovers he has superpowers of teleportation when he suddenly teleports from his car to a dog he sees in danger across the street. This boy is recruited by an organization that his father was secretly affiliated with. Spoilers.
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Read this around 2013-2018, so my late elementary to early middle school years. Chapter book(s) of a possible series.
Main character boy discovers he has superpowers of teleportation when he suddenly teleports from his car to a dog he sees in danger across the street. This boy is recruited by an organization that his father was secretly affiliated with. The father had previously gone missing on an expedition to find a termed "dragon" that ends up being explained as an alien race of starfish shaped creatures. The boy has a female informant who poses as his nanny while he lives his double life as an agent and a normal student and son. The boy also has a female companion who dies and is transformed from a human to a ghostly raven apparition that can appear out of a crowd of ravens to communicate with the boy.
Below is commenting along with my recent response on regular help request forums on GoodReads website that I found and I wanted to bring to WtNoTB:
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I would like to find a book about a boy with powers and a girl who turns into a crow girl hybrid
In the book, there’s this boy that can teleport or shapeshift, the first scene is when he travels from his car to the other side of the street to save a dog. It was a duology, and he had a female friend. I think he had gotten recruited for this like group of people with superpowers. I think they fought against bad guys. There was someone in particular that was going after him, a guy in a suit and hat. Something happens towards end of the book and in the second book, the female friend comes back from the dead but this time she is a crow/raven hybrid, and I think that guy in the suit turned her into that, she also apparently the guy in the story bc I think it was his fault she died. There’s also a scene where he gets trapped in a fire and she comes to save him. I remember that place that was burning had this guy who seemed like a good huh but could actually control the dolls in that house and caused the fire. The cover of the book was green with a grey bird in the top half, the bird was coming down so the beak was in the middle, like a V shape, and the title was in long thin letters. I also remember it was either fantasy/sci-fi. If it helps, I read it once on get epic.
My response:
YES YES YES, THIS IS THE BOOK I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR TOO! There was a girl that I remember as being just someone from the boy's past, a classmate or something. I remember another female friend of the boy who was actually an agent for the group he was recruited by. She posed as his nanny. Also, the father of the boy was affiliated with the organization and had gone searching for a "dragon" which turns out to have been aliens that looked like sea stars and they sort of merged with the father's body? That's revealed toward the end when the boy drags his sister into the conspiracy hunt, too. The agency lied that the father was missing so that the boy would be driven to work with them, but then he finds they were lying and they were holding him the whole time in a suspended state of animation because he couldn't live normally due to the interaction with the aliens. There's also some sort of face off at the end where the boy has to choose who to trust and then defeat the baddie? I forget that part, but the crow girl thing and the dog teleport thing I remember! Also, I describe it as both sci-fi and fantasy.