# Powerless

**Author:** Matthew Cody
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2009
**Genre:** Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780375893537`
**ISBN-10:** `0375893539`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/powerless-matthew-cody
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Daniel learns his new friends have superpowers that vanish on their thirteenth birthday — and races to stop the thief erasing them. (Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award winner.)

## Themes

- superheroes
- friendship
- memory

## Where this book is assigned

### Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Illinois — [source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award — official winners list (Illinois grades 4-8, voted annually since 1988)](https://www.rebeccacaudill.org/past-awards/past-winners-list)

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