Review: To Be a Ninja by Benedict Jacka

Here's a bit of a random one - T picked this book up for me on a lark because I recommended the author's current series. To Be a Ninja is an unrelated kids book about... kids escaping from their drug dealer father and hiding in a secret ninja village?

Getting there is kinda hokey, but I enjoyed the book once it became a going-to-magic-school style young adult novel. I was a bit surprised that it was set up as a series - turns out there is another (and there was a third planned, before the author's other series picked up... he doesn't intend to write it now) that continues it.

Anyway, pleasant read. Interestingly, the author characterizes the girl as the main character (I would have said it was relatively split between her and her brother), but I'm glad to say there was no awkward kid romance (the bane of my re-reading most series in this age range).