Øvreås, Håkon, 1974- My alter ego is a superhero #1

With help from his recently-deceased grandfather, new friends and their superhero alter egos, and some paint, Rusty stops the bullies who have been terrorizing their small town

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As long as the sun is up, Rusty is just Rusty, but come nightfall, he transforms. Armed with his grandfather's broken pocket watch, paintbrushes, and two cans of brown paint, Rusty's alter ego can do anything! The first book in a highly popular, award-winning middle-grade series from Norway, Brown is a weird, satisfying, excellently illustrated read about friendship, loss, and courage. --

Decoding: 4 (hard) Vocabulary: 5 (very hard) Sentences: 5 (very hard) Patterns: 5 (very hard)

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Decoding demand: 79 (high) Semantic demand: 95 (very high) Syntactic demand: 80 (high) Structure demand: 83 (very high)

Batchelder Award, 2020