Books with author Ben White

Charlotte Powers is fifteen years old, overloaded with superpowers, and ready. Ready to start adventuring, ready to fight evil, ready to sort things out.There's a problem, though. Not with her powers, she has super strength and super agility and phase-shifting, a combination that is unique even in BEING a combination; nobody else has ever had multiple superpowers. The problem is that her parents don't think she's ready for the world--or that the world is ready for her.So instead of going adventuring she's sent to a nice, normal school, ostensibly to establish a Public Identity.And that's where it all goes wrong ..."Power Down" is the first book in the Charlotte Powers series.

Villains Act. Heroes React.But sometimes reacting isn't enough. Segregation events continue around the world, but Charlotte and her family are always one step behind, never in time to stop them. Thousands of people are being taken, but for what purpose? Towards what end? Charlotte doesn't have any answers, and even the questions are proving elusive.But now there comes a single clue, a tenuous pattern, one fragile lead that points to Powerstone City, home to semi-retired superheroes, vicious gangs and armoured vigilantes ... and a greater threat than Charlotte ever imagined."Power Play" is the second book in the Charlotte Powers series.

How far would you go to know the truth?I woke up with this thing on my wrist, the thing I'm using to write this, I know it's called an Opal but I don't know HOW I know that. I don't even really know why I'm writing, except that I feel like I have to--and that maybe it'll help me figure things out. I can't get anything straight inside my head, everything's fuzzy and it's difficult to focus. Edges keep slipping away.I'm in a ... maze. Or a prison. Everything's perfectly black and white--the colours, I mean, not the situation. Huh, this situation is anything BUT black and white. I'm wearing a dress, for a start, explain that! It was probably really pretty before it got all torn and dirty, I don't know how, it was like that when I woke up. I'm not in such good shape either, I'm bruised and aching and I've got weird scratches all over my arms and my left eye is a little swollen--I can see myself in the reflection of my Opal's screen. I can see myself, and I know my face, it's familiar to me, but ... but ...... but I don't know who I am ..."Hidden Power" is the third book in the Charlotte Powers series.

You can't change the past./what if you could what if you could what if you could/You can't change the past./no way back no way back no way back/You can't change the past./i am here this is now i am here this is now/You can't change the past ...... but you can fight for the future ..."Rising Power" is the fourth and penultimate book in the Charlotte Powers series.

Charlotte Powers is a hero. (What did she save?)Charlotte Powers is a villain. (How many died?)Charlotte Powers is a mimic. (Is that really the truth?)Charlotte Powers is broken. (Then could she be fixed?)Charlotte Powers cannot lie. (Can truth be a weapon?)Charlotte Powers hides. (Can a mask be a shield?)Charlotte Powers survives. (Is that all she's good at?)Charlotte Powers is dying. (But aren't we all?)Charlotte Powers is the most powerful individual in the world. (It should be anyone else.)Charlotte Powers is desperate to keep this a secret.(But she never gets what she wants.)One Girl Armya story of letting go

There's no place like home.For Princess Miya Black 'home' is Clover Island, a tiny dot of a place not even named on most maps. Founded fifteen years ago by her parents, ex-pirate Tomas "Boots" Black and ex-princess Lilith "Lily" Brightburn, it's a place for second chances and new beginnings. It's there that Miya was born, there she grew up, and there she now lives, spending her days riding with her best friend, practising swordsmanship with her fake uncle, sailing with her father, and avoiding book lessons with her mother. To Miya it's the best place in the entire world, and she knows how lucky she is to have it.So when her home is threatened Miya doesn't just sit around sulking. She's the princess of Clover Island, with the blood of pirate legends running through her veins, and she'll do whatever it takes to protect her kingdom."Adventure Dawns" is the first book in the Miya Black, Pirate Princess series.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ...and although Miya Black wouldn't call her current life 'nothing', it certainly isn't anything close to an adventure. Half a year has passed since Badger Pete's attack, and life has returned to normal on Clover Island - rather TOO normal, at least as far as a certain Pirate Princess is concerned. There are no terrible monsters to vanquish, no great and obvious wrongs to right, just everyday problems with everyday solutions and a lot of cleaning up. To put it bluntly Miya is bored, and being grounded doesn't help at all. But dark clouds are gathering against the tiny kingdom, old enemies are stirring, and Miya may come to regret ever wishing for adventure..."Freedom & Responsibility" is the second volume in the Miya Black, Pirate Princess series.

The mysterious town doesn't seem to have a name. That's part of what makes it mysterious, maybe. I mean I don't know. I'm just guessing. None of the Treasure Guardians have thought to name it, although Candy Stocking has whole notebooks full of observations about the town, and Liquorice Cupcake has drawn hundreds of pictures of the streets and views and monsters and everything, and Trouble Fox has explored pretty much everywhere even if getting her to talk about anything is a chore and a half, and Clover Pirate has battled monsters all over the place, and Obviously Lemonade and Peppermint Star have been around for longer than anyone else, apart from Mrs Hoot and Mistress Tabitha Maybenot of course, so I guess they know a lot about the place, the town I mean, and if there's a secret candy gathering point in the town that Choral Singalong doesn't know about then, well, I don't know, she's just really good at finding secret candy gathering points, is what I'm saying, and then Flower Turnip, well she mostly just sleeps a lot but she's a nice girl. You'd like her.This new girl, though. What's her story? She doesn't have a special Treasure Guardian weapon and she doesn't have a special Treasure Guardian treasure pouch, she doesn't even have a name. I don't even think she can do any special attacks, although maybe she could use her little teddy bear for something, I don't know, or her red and white striped skin, I've never seen anything like that before, could it be some kind of power? Or is it just a skin condition? I guess we'll find out. Sometime. Maybe. Or maybe not. The thing about this mysterious town is that, yes, it certainly is full of mysteries. But the thing about mysteries is that sometimes they're better left unsolved...

More than a century ago the world was devastated, but that doesn't matter. Nobody cares about the past, stories from that time are as wildly conflicting as they are ridiculous--when any stories exist at all. There are problems in the here and now that need to be dealt with, bringing the past into things isn't going to help anyone.The fact is that young people all over the world are developing mysterious powers, and the public reactions to these powers are far from positive. Fair enough, you might say. Who wants a young man around who can conjure heat from the palm of his hand? How deeply undesirable is a girl who can bend your emotions to her will? What use, I ask you, is a girl whose very essence crackles with lightning? No use at all, I'd say.As for this so-called 'Mr Fin' and his grand ideals, well, all I can say is that his clothing is of better quality than his plans. Vague allusions to a 'sanctuary' and a 'mysterious and powerful statue' are all very well, but when it comes to solid results I fear you may find him somewhat lacking. Mark my words and mark them well, following one such as him will only lead to tears.All in all, I'd say there's not much you could reasonably expect from a world such as this. Conflict, perhaps. Hardship, certainly. Despair, heartache, loss ...... hope?No, don't be ridiculous. Where could one find hope, in this ruin of an existence?Honestly, I am asking. Where?

"Darkness approaches", they say. I'm forced to laugh--approaches? It's already here! Never mind the potential of another Devastation, never mind these fabled 'second wavers', never mind the disturbing possibility that all of this is nothing but Fate's twisted game, have you heard what's going on in Rosanth? In Pyre? In Crove? Armies gather, inquisitions tear children from families, individually twisted powers arise--and this is not 'approaching', this is happening.Still, I suppose it's not all bad. You do hear tales of families being reunited, of miraculous 'rescues', of those who are even now fighting this darkness ... but really, when the whole world is against you, what can you do? What CAN you do? Why would you keep struggling, when it all seems so hideously inevitable?What could possibly stop you from simply giving up?Why would you keep fighting?

You can't go home again... or so it seems to Miya Black. She's been away from her beloved Clover Island for months now, and she's starting to get just a little bit fed up. Lying kings, psychotic rivals, murderous captains and scheming mercenaries are just the start of her problems, and before she can even think about getting home Miya is going to find out just how low a pirate can get. That's not even the worst of it; now it seems like entire countries are conspiring to keep her from returning to her kingdom.But Miya is nothing if not determined. She'll get back to Clover Island even if she has to fight through an entire army to do so.Which is just as well, really ..."This Impossible World, This Impossible Girl" is the fourth volume in the Miya Black, Pirate Princess series.