Zac Power is a fun, action series featuring a 12 year-old secret agent with mysteries to solve, bad guys to catch and a bag full of cool spy gadgets.
Since the series began in 2006 Zac's world of espionage and adventure has been extremely popular and has gained an enthusiastic and loyal fan base especially among primary school aged readers, in particular BOYS!!
All of Zac's daring adventures are available in the Red Spot section of our Library. Each book features an 85-90 page fast-paced, stand-alone story complete with illustrations and labelled diagrams of Zac's gadgets.
February 2009 saw the release of the first books in the Zac Power Test Drive series. It is a simplified version of the Zac Power series, developed for emerging and/or reluctant younger readers aged 5-8 years-old looking for fun adventure stories with a simple text.
These books introduce Leon, code name Tech Head, who is responsible for developing lots of cool gadgets and vehicles that Zac gets to try out.
These books have large print with a maximum of 40 words per page. They are packed with illustrations of gadgets and blueprints of vehicles. Each book is a stand-alone story of approx 60 pages and best of all they are chapter books!!
Now for the 'true identity' of author H I Larry. Until recently this has been a closely guarded secret however it has now been revealed as a real 'team effort'. The very first of Zac's adventures was written by Hilary Badger, with the help of her editor Hilary Rogers. Because they both share the name Hilary they created the 'pretend name' H I Larry. Hilary became so busy writing books to keep up with the demand from Zac's fans that she asked her sister, Meredith Badger, for help (Meredith will be known to our Red Spot readers as the writer of the Space Scout books). When Meredith turned her attention to her own writing projects new author Chris Morphew joined the team (Chris will be familiar to our Yellow Spot readers as he penned the sci-fi series The Phoenix Files).
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