INFINITE POWERS OF ADAM GOWERS

Adam Gowers has problems. He is desperately in love with a girl who doesn t fancy him in the slightest; he s gone and got himself booked in for a fight with the hardest kid in the school; he s worried about failing all his GCSEs; his parents can barely stand the sight of each other. And then one day he is granted an infinite number of wishes by a genie who conveniently pops out of a lamp. Infinite! An infinite number of wishes! Effectively he has become a god. Except that he doesn t really have the skill-set to go with the god-like powers... The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers is as funny as The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; as full of ideas as The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; and as sweet and easy to read as Nick Hornby s Slam. These days, all YA novels are edgy . Either they re bleak slabs of social realism or dystopian visions of the future. The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers is that rare a teenage novel that makes you laugh rather than wince.