When I heard my sister crying, I froze.
My legs.
My mouth.
Every part of me froze.
Except my heart.
That was racing 8,500 miles per hour, as fast as Quicksilver, the world’s speediest superhero. Ready to jump into action.
Eleven-year-old Benji, who was born without hands on the other side of the world, is adopted by a family in Maine, where he falls in love with superheroes and dreams of being a hero himself. His younger sister Becka who has Down syndrome saves the day at the Special Olympics. But when is it Benji’s turn to save the day? Benji meets a war hero who’s a quadruple amputee and starts to look at his own limb differences and himself in new ways. If he gets prosthetic hands, will that help him to be heroic? When something unexpected happens that Benji feels is his fault, he has no choice–he has to do something.
