Super Mom Saves the World

by Melanie Lynne Hauser

Overview

“Forget the laundry, forget the dishes, escape into the world of Super Mom for a few hours . . . You’ll be glad you did.”—Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries and Queen of Babble
 
Astro Park’s fearless maternal dynamo is back, battling evildoers—and her own panic, as her daughter learns how to drive and her son gears up for his first date.
 
The action never stops for Birdie Lee, divorced mother of two who became a super-powered suburban avenger after a Horrible Swiffer Accident. Busily fundraising for a brand-new stadium where the kids can play ball, she’s also planning a wedding to her very own Super Man. But soon her Super Mom Sense warns her that something’s wrong with the new stadium. And when she investigates, a shadowy figure tries to toss Super Mom out of the game for good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440674570
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/06/2007
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	406 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Former member of the PTA Melanie Lynne Hauser is a prototypical Super Mom. She is the author of Confessions of Super Mom and Super Mom Saves the World. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their two sons.

Editorial Reviews

Midwestern mom uses her superpowers to battle evil. Hauser picks up where she left off in Confessions of Super Mom (2005). This time around, the citizens of Astro Park face corrupt politicians, a Little League steroid scandal and environmental terrorism. But Birdie Lee, aka Super Mom, is always on the lookout for evildoers. Birdie has been endowed with the ability to squirt cleaning fluids from her fingertips and clean with the "power of ten thousand Swiffers." When Super Mom's not administering her Merciless Gaze (which causes mere mortals to speak the truth) or satisfying the cravings of hungry teens with snacks from her Apron of Anticipation, she works at a local grocery store as a checkout clerk. Though she has enviable cleaning prowess, Birdie is saddled with commonplace woes. She's a single mom raising two teenagers-enough to bring even Wonder Woman to her knees. Hauser expertly sketches adolescents Kelly and Martin, complete with zits, crushes, broken friendships and all the other messiness involved in their hyper-emotional lives. But it's when she writes about Birdie's second-chance romance with local scientist Carl Sayers that the story is most compelling. After being burned by her handsome ex, Doctor Dan, Birdie's instinct is to shield her heart from future pain; it's a struggle to let Carl join her close-knit family. Hauser's belief in happy endings where justice and love prevail at times makes her tale too saccharine, but it provides a welcome break from the proliferation of urban mommy books. For those who rely on Fresh Direct and nannies to run a household, this will read like a foreign text. The women in Hauser's world clean their own toilets, volunteer for the PTA and bakea mean tuna casserole. A quaint behind-the-scenes look into the modern-day problems of middle age.

Kirkus Reviews