The Minor Rescue: The Amazing Adventures of Noah Minor, Book 2

by Meredith Davis, Billy Yong (Illustrator)

Overview

Noah Minor is back for another action-packed adventure--this time in the Big Apple--where he's hoping to stop Gravitas' most wanted (and Noah's great uncle) once and for all!

Noah might be zooming through Gravitas training, but his friends Rodney and Haley still haven’t recovered from their run-in with his great-uncle Saul three months ago. And Noah blames himself for letting Gravitas’s Most Wanted get away.

When twenty-six middle schoolers are kidnapped, Gravitas sends Noah to New York City to look for clues to Saul’s location. Noah hopes to make things right and prove he isn’t an epic failure. 

But is Noah actually looking to bring Saul to justice, or is he just seeking revenge?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593445389
Publisher:	PRH Christian Publishing
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Series:	The Amazing Adventures of Noah Minor , #2
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	34 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Meredith Davis is the author of The Minor Miracle, the first book in The Amazing Adventures of Noah Minor. Her first book, Her Own Two Feet, which she co-authored with Rebeka Uwitonze, earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly, was a Junior Library Guild selection, a nominee for the NAACP Image Award, and World magazine’s Children’s Book of the Year for nonfiction. Meredith the founder of the Austin chapter of the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She's a proud wife, mother, and grandmother living in Austin, Texas.

Billy Yong is an illustrator and character designer. Since starting out he has drawn storyboards, done visual development, and even voice acted for animation, games, and children's books. Outside of his professional doodlings, he can be found in a cafe, drawing or painting in his sketchbook, developing his personal projects, or teaching Japanese swordsmanship in the dojo. Billy currently lives in sunny Singapore.

Read an Excerpt

Chapter 1

I used to think I was nothing special, but after everything that happened last semester, I know better.

For one thing, I can manipulate gravity.

If you ask Director Wolfshaw, he’ll say I’m no superhero, that a gravitar’s abilities are possible “because of science—not the bite of a radioactive spider or some magic ring.”

Whatever.

I think what I can do is pretty super, and because I was dropped sixteen stories on the night of a supermoon, I’m even more powerful than the average gravitar. Once I learn a new skill, my extra strength kicks in and I advance quickly. As soon as I figured out how to pull, I was immediately doing a heavy pull. And when there’s a supermoon, I’ve got even more power. I was the one who swooped in and BAM! KAPOW! stopped the bad guy and saved the lives of my best friends.

Okay, yeah, I’m also the one who let the bad guy, aka my great-uncle Saul, manipulate me and ultimately get away the night of The Incident. But—

“Noah, focus,” Wolfshaw barks. He’s got a broad chest, big muscles, and a military buzz cut that’s pretty spot-on for the director of a covert international organization affiliated with the CIA.

“Yes, sir!” I bark back. I straighten to my full height, which is almost as tall as he is, and adjust my blue belt.

Focus . . . I need to focus.

But not on practicing my press to build up to a heavy press like Wolfshaw wants me to do. Sure, I’d like to get off the provisional status I was put on after my mistakes with Saul. Yes, I want to earn my purple belt and keep ZOOMING through the Gravitas ranks. But I’m not going anywhere without Haley. What I’m focused on right now is helping my best friend get her press back. The dynamic duo sticks together.

When I learned I was a gravitar, Haley had already been training for a full six months. She was intermediate before I even started. But then Saul dropped her off the roof, and she lost her ability to press and went back to a green belt. While I’ve been advancing, she’s been stuck. She can pull and she can SLG (which we pronounce as “slug”), but she can’t press anymore.

A press is basically a pull plus, enabling a gravitar to pull something heavier than his or her body weight. We essentially increase our mass by compressing—or pressing—gravitons to our bodies. This alters the gravitational forces between us and a heavier object so that we can pull on it and make it move.

Haley understands this with her brain, but not her body. Not anymore.

What happened that night is holding her back. Haley’s scared. And you can’t press from a place of fear.

I don’t think having the director of Gravitas as our instructor has helped either. Wolfshaw makes everybody nervous. Nobody knows why he was put in a teaching position, but personally, I think he’s here to keep an eye on me. He started once I entered intermediate. Coincidence? I think not.