Author:Michele Jaffe
Jas thinks that everyone has a super power. Everyone, that is, except herself - unless you count her extraordinary ability to get herself in trouble. But the last thing Jas expected to do on her family holiday in glitzy Las Vegas was to survive a cat attack and solve a celebrity murder mystery. As she finds herself tracking an unknown killer through a bevy of Vegas parties, Jas develops a huge crush on the possibly evil - but GORGEOUS - Jack, and manages to collect some valuable life lessons for her Summer Meaningful Reflection Journal along the way. Little Life Lesson Number 5: when you go to prison, try not to be wearing a bikini. But despite a few 'mishaps', Jas finally solves the case. And to top it all off, Jack ISN'T evil, and has a bit of a crush on Jas too. Perhaps she does have some super powers after all...
Positively wizard-like levels of inventiveness
—— ScotsmanGood jokes and a fast-moving fantasy yarn
—— Books for KeepsA powerful and original young writer. By the time I'd finished the book, I wanted to go on a Creep myself
—— Gillian CrossOne can't help thinking that if there were more writers like Keith Gray, more teenagers would read
—— Glasgow HeraldThis book tackles adolescence head on; it deals with themes of friendship and loss, bullying and revenge
—— writeaway.co.ukAll demand to be read in translation of the originals and not sanitized retellings. Here, by examining letters, journals, annotations and posthumously unavailable papers, Zipes found some hitherto untranslated "ironic and macabre fables, humorous anecdotes, stories about the crusades, Norwegian legend, one 'feminist' tale among other things
—— Buffalo News