Cody, Matthew.
POWERLESS
New York : Knopf, 2009
IL 5-8, RL 5.3
ISBN 0375855955

 “The safest town on earth?” thought Daniel, “Couldn’t sound lamer.”

When he moves to his new home in Noble’s Green, 12-yr-old Daniel Corrigan notices that there’s something distinctly odd about some of the kids in town.  After one of them literally saves his life, he discovers that some of them are equipped with superpowers, and they’ve been using them to protect the local citizens.

There is one power that his classmates don’t have, however.  They haven’t been able to discover the source of these powers, or an explanation for why, when a “super-kid” turns 13, both their powers and all memories of having had them, disappear.  When Daniel embarks on a mission to solve this mystery, he uncovers a plot that is more serious, and more evil, than any of them could have imagined.

Will Daniel and his new friends be able to triumph over evil before their 13th birthdays arrive, and leave them POWERLESS???  (New Hampshire Great Stone Face nominee, 2011)