Jacob has won the trip of a lifetime. Not only will he be leaving his small town in the UK to travel to Hollywood – all expenses paid plus spending money, he will be an acting extra in a superhero movie. Being a huge fan of the Marvel universe, he is incredibly excited.

At the airport, Jacob’s mum quietly slips him a $100 note for spending money, his big sister talks about plane crashes, and his dad tells him several times – ‘Do NOT miss your connecting flight.’

Jacob misses his connecting flight. It wasn’t really his fault, and he will blame Nicholas Cage forever. This one mistake leads to one adventure/disaster after another.

First there’s the girl with a baseball cap pulled low. There’s police. There’s an ex US Marshall in a cowboy hat, there’s trains, buses and planes, and even an RV driven by ufologists – who trust NO-one. There’s clowns, an urn, and a Lex Luther-like wealthy evil grandma.

Jacob might be a huge fan of superhero movies, but he could never have dreamed up any of the things he finds himself doing – and if he did, would never have left the UK. Initially through guilt, then fear, then courage he finds along the way, Jacob’s trip is worth a movie script all on its own. The clock is ticking… Will he make it to Hollywood in time to hear that famous word… ‘Action!’

Another funny novel by Tom Mitchell. The main character Jacob is a 14 year old boy who has never left the UK let alone travel across America. After winning a dream of a lifetime Marvel competition, he meets a girl by accident – literally, and is quickly caught up in her desperate flee across the country.

This girl might be snappy to begin with, but she soon mellows to sassy, then someone Jacob really likes and wants to help. Trying to do the right thing, but slowly becoming aware that sometimes that is doing the wrong thing, he’s not the same teen who left the UK only days before. Great read.

Author – Tom Mitchell

Age – 11+

More books by Tom Mitchell

(Superhero, Road trip, Adventure, Movie, Action, Cowboy, Conspiracists, Conspiracy, Funny, Humour, Prize, Adventure, Courage, Crime, Family, Friendship, Growing up, Marvel, Spiderman)