Starscape, New York, 2008, 1^st/1^st thus.  ISBN 978-0-7653-5354-2.  Trade soft cover, 272 pages including Acknowledgements and Reader’s Guide.  Very light edge and cover wear, small stain on top edge; interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; gently read if at all.  Author’s first novel.  ‘For as long as he can remember, fourteen-year-old Josh Bievins has wanted to attend the Burlington Academy for the Superhuman.  There’s only one problem:  He doesn’t have any superpowers.  But Josh isn’t about to let that stop him.  Under the guise of Chance Fortune, a superhuman with the power of having unnaturally good luck, Josh manages to get into the academy.  There, he quickly rises in the ranks to become the leader of his own combat team, the Outlaws.  Soon, Chance and his teammates find themselves caught up in a struggle for the fate of the universe.  Can Chance and the Outlaws save the universe – and survive their freshman year?’ (from rear wrap)