SuperZero (school edition). Darrel Bristow-Bovey

as excited about it as anyone. But now he just felt tired and sore, and he wanted to be alone to think about what had happened, and think about the fire at the school, and Daniel Dundee, and he wanted to think about being a superhero …

      “Zed! You’re not thinking about flaking out of it, are you? I need someone to go with me!”

      “What about Ulric Chilvers?” said Zed. “He’d go with you.”

      “I don’t want to go with him,” said Katey. “I want to go with you.”

      After reading

4.	Why do you think that Katey giggles – something she never does – when she first meets Ulric?
5.	Zed appears to be losing confidence in his own superhero status. Why? Which super-powers does he not have so far?
6.	What history is there between Zed and Daniel Dundee?
7.	What does Zed learn about Bighton School from Jerome, the caretaker? Does this surprise you or not?
8.	What is different about Buckman’s New-Worlde Circus?
9.	What makes Zed say that Katey should go to the circus with Ulric Chilvers instead of him?
10.	Write down an example of onomatopoeia from the first page of this chapter.
11.	What does the expression “he couldn’t put his finger on it” mean?