title: The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks #1: Secret Identity Crisis
author:  Jake Bell 
description: Scattered with references to comic-book creators throughout history and inhabited by original superheroes with names like Phantom Ranger and Zilch, its clear that Bell knows his super-lore backwards and forwards. What bodes well for the new Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks series is that hes also well acquainted with the internal life of your average sixth-grade comics fan. Its wish fulfillment in spades, as the small town of Kanigher Falls gets its first superhero in the form of white-and-purple clad Ultraviolet, who Nate Banks just knows is really his history teacher, Ms. Meadows. The trick is proving it, of course, and as Nate follows the evidence into an unexpected and sinister plot, Bell imparts a lesson about genuine courage and responsibility with little pedantry but lots of panache. He also offers up the unique and convincing character of a slightly melancholy and ambivalent superhero who manages to be vulnerable at the same time that shes invulnerable, right up to a slam bang, cinematic climax. Includes a short comic book for extra zing. Grades 4-6. --Jesse Karp
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  THE TRUTH THAT KILLS
  
  
  A NATE ROSEN MYSTERY
  
  
  
  
  
  Ron Levitsky
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © Ronald Levitsky 1992
  
  
  
  
  
  Ronald Levitsky has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and
  Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in 1992 by Penguin Group Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published in 2018 by Endeavour Media Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my mother and father on their fiftieth anniversary
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc517087389)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc517087390)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc517087391)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc517087392)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc517087393)
  
  
  [Chapter Six](part0000_split_010.html#_Toc517087394)
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](part0000_split_011.html#_Toc517087395)
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](part0000_split_012.html#_Toc517087396)
  
  
  [Chapter Nine](part0000_split_013.html#_Toc517087397)
  
  
  