He likes it but wonders why the pen was left.

Scott gets a visitor in his bedroom window that leaves him a old pen. When they find Scott has writer’s block, they say hat they will help him overcome it. The guys become excited as they love comic books. Do you draw comics? When he sees them, he gets excited and Joel goes to look at them too. Barry picks up Scott’s pad of paper and flips the pages. They find out that they are in going to be in the same grade at school. He starts to scold his pencil and hits the pad of paper so hard with his pencil, it bounced and fell into the storm drain. Scott is sitting on the curb as he has finished unpacking his boxes and arranging his bedroom. I particularly enjoyed the evil villain Stinky Sock and the disappearance of socks all over town! If you have readers interested in superheroes and would love to find out what happens when middle schoolers get turned into them, this is the perfect book! However, I do believe that this book maintained the same type of wacky adventure that the first book had, while also introducing new abilities for the magic pen. I would have preferred for Blue Hood to be more of a secondary character, like the original book, or to have made her a more prominent main character. While this was aimed at learning more about Blue Hood, I felt like I learned more about the actions and motivations of the three boys in the story. This was a fun prequel to learn a little bit more about Blue Hood and why she knew about the pen in Monster Problem. That is because he is using a magic pen, which makes everything he draws real! Before they learn how to use their abilities, these newly minted superheroes have to fight the villain Stinky Sock and figure out how to keep their school's alpaca safe. When Scott draws him and a few of his friends as superheroes with his new pen, he makes the biggest mistake of his middle school career. In this prequel to Monster Problems, readers dive into the story of how Blue Hood, or Prudence, learned about the magic pen.

Being Bree by Christine Sromek Laforet