Prepared by:

Fitriah Bt Hassan, SMKAM

Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an
American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and
novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden
Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional
Oscars, two more Golden Globes, eight Grammy Awards and
two Tony Awards.
Newton Newman
• 10 years old
• short, skinny, freckled and quiet
• Nick name : Newt
• terrified of height (acrophobic)
• attends Appleton elementary
• very imaginative, enjoys drawing
superheroes
• feels neglected and being ignored by his
classmates.
• does not feel special and noticed even in
his own family
• lives in the shadow of his brother, Chris.
• feels strong, assured, confident and super
amazing when he wears the Captain
Nobody costume.
• helpful and heroic – he makes breakfast
for the family, helps people when he
plays the role of Captain Nobody
Newton Newman's Mom and Dad
• busy and workaholic
• his Dad is a supervisor of a building company
• his Mom sells real estate
• very proud of their son, Chris
• love Newton and Chris very much
Chris Newman
• Newton's brother
• a super nice guy
• popular football player of Ferrets of Fillmore High School.
• scored the winning touchdown in the Big Game
• was knocked unconscious into a coma during the Big Game.
 JJ
• Juanita Josephine Gonzalez
• the tallest girl in the fourth grade
• Newt's best friend (besides Cecil)
• being ignored in school
• smart – began to read at three
• gets annoyed when she seesgrammatical errors or
misspelled words especially on signage
• helps to create Halloween costume for Newt
Cecil Butterworth
• Newt's best friend
• shorter and skinnier than Newt
• speaks loudly
• dreams of becoming a drummer
• being ignored at school
• comes out with the idea of
'inner other-‐personal hero'
Halloween costumes.
 CHAPTER 1

Nobody Eats Breakfast

 Tonight's Big Game Is
Biggest Yet !
Last year, as a junior, Newman led
the Ferrets to a second Big Game
victory, and this year, with both
teams undefeated, excitement is
running high. Chris New-MANIA is
sweeping the town. That is my brother
they are talking
about. I must tell
Mom and Dad !
• Newton Newman is reading the news about the Big Game.
• It is going to be held that night.
• His brother, Chris of Ferocious Ferrets, will be the star of the game.
• He led the Ferrets to a second Big Game victory the year before
against their rival, the Chargers of Merrimac High.
• He is very proud of his brother and he wants to break the news to
his parents.
pages 4-‐5
• Newt has prepared breakfast for his Mom and
Dad but they are so busy answering phone calls
that they do not have the time to sit and eat.
• Newt tries to tell them about what the news said
about Chris but they are too busy to listen.
• He is sad that nobody has eaten his breakfast.
• He wants to help his parents by preparing the
breakfast but now they are too busy to eat. That
makes him feel irritated and frustrated.
pages 7,9
 HIT THE
SHOWERS!!!

• Since his parents are still on the phone, Newt

unleashes his frustration on Chris.
• Ignoring his parents' instruction to "let your
brother sleep", he storms upstairs to his brother's
room and shouts loudly "Hit the showers!!".
• His brother startles and throws pillows at him.
That is how he wakes his brother up just the way
Chris' coaches order over the years.
pages 9,10
 CHAPTER 2

Halloween
Plans are made – sort of
• When he gets to school the next morning, the school
playground is packed with kids running around. He squeezes
his way through the crowd.
• Like they do every day, they look right through him. They
just ignore him. They do not realise that he is the brother of
a football star.
• He sits down on a large boulder at the far end of the school
yard and begins to draw in his Secret Superhero
Sketchbook. pages 11
• Newt loves drawing comic characters.
• When he was small, Chris always read his comic books to him.
He was hypnotised by the pictures of the superheroes with
their awesome powers.
• As soon as he could hold a pencil, he spent hours tracing the
characters in his comics.
• When he got a little older, he began to invent his own
superheroes such as Master Key and Paper Boy in his Secret
Superhero Sketchbook. He keeps his sketches a secret from
everyone except for his best friends JJ and Cecil.
pages 12
• JJ and Cecil are Newt's buddies.
• JJ is the tallest girl in the fourth grade.
She is a really smart and has large
vocabulary and extensive knowledge
of books.
• Cecil is shorter and skinnier than Newt.
• At school, other kids ignore them.
• Other kids always step on them in the hallways almost like they
are not there. They are always shoved away from the water
fountain. Often other kids slide their food off the table and
squeeze them out of their seats.
• Nobody pays attention to them. pages 16
 • One morning Newt, JJ and Cecil meet at school.
• Cecil reminds them about Halloween that is on Sunday.
• JJ is bored with Halloween and they do not have
proper costumes to wear.
• They have always been forced to wear lend-‐me-‐down costumes and
they refuse to wear the same costumes this year.
• Cecil comes up with the idea that Halloween is the right them for them
to be noticed by everyone. They need to create their own Halloween
costumes to represent their inner-‐other, like their personal heroes.
pages 16
• Cecil excitedly talks about what they should be this
Halloween.
• He urges JJ and Newt to think of a superhero that they
want to be.
• They have only three days to make their costumes and
they will surprise each other when they meet on
Halloween night.
pages 17-‐18