Line #23 Literature/TheShapeshifter


1	The Shapeshifter is a children's book series by Ali Sparkes following the adventures of Dax Jones, a boy who can shapeshift into a fox and fellow [=COLAs=] (Children of Limitless Ability) as they discover their supernatural powers.
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3	There are six books in the series which are (in order)
4	* Finding the Fox
5	* Running the Risk
6	* Going to Ground
7	* Dowsing the Dead
8	* Stirring the Storm
9	* Feather and Fang
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12	!!This book series provides examples of:
13	* AllAliensHaveSuperpowers: [[spoiler:all of the [=COLAs=]' mothers' races.]]
14	* BadassNormal: Owen Hind, even managed to sneak up on Dax in fox form.
15	* BadPowersBadPeople: Used and Averted, Catherine is a parasite and a psychopath, but [[spoiler:Mia the good-natured vegetarian]] can set people on fire.
16	* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: Superpowered people are dubbed [=COLAs=] or Children Of Limitless Ability, due to them all being under the age of fifteen.
17	* DisappearedDad: Dax's father, an oil rig worker. He's still alive; he's just not around very often, leaving Dax in the dubious care of his WickedStepmother.
18	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Owen, who appears to fall to his death, but is later revealed to be alive.]]
19	* EmpathicHealer: Mia, but over time she became able to do this without hurting herself.
20	%%* EnfantTerrible: Catherine Reader, parasite.
21	%%* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Catherine's. Oh so much.]]
22	* ExplosiveLeash: Used rather disturbingly in the last book on [[spoiler:the [=COLAs=]. It also acts as a PowerNullifier in the form of chip implanted in the back of their skulls.]]
23	* GoodPowersBadPeople: One character royally abuses his 'charm' power.
24	%%* {{Glamour}}: Two characters not being vulnerable to this is important to the story.
25	* ISeeDeadPeople: One character is a medium, and she's not happy about it.
26	* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The [=COLAs=]]] are half alien.
27	%%* HealingHands: Mia
28	* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Dax Jones, although less over time.
29	* MakingTheChoiceForYou: When Dax [[spoiler:[[SadisticChoice has to choose between saving his father or saving Owen]] when both are hanging off an oil rig, [[MentorOccupationalHazard Owen]] [[HeroicSacrifice lets go]] so Dax doesn't have to choose between them.]]
30	* MasterOfIllusion: What Spook Williams likes to think he is.
31	* MissingMom: Dax and all of the other [=COLAs=] have dead mothers. [[spoiler:They were aliens, and died due to incompatibility with the Earth.]]
32	* MysteriousAnimalSenses: A by-product of Dax's shapeshifting.
33	%%* PsychicPowers: Loads of them.
34	* SadisticChoice: Catherine forces Dax [[spoiler: to chose between saving his father, or saving Owen, whilst both are hanging on a oil rig.]]
35	* ShapeShifterBaggage: Used and lampshaded; the characters discuss how Dax is much lighter as a fox than as a human.
36	* SuperhumanTrafficking: [[spoiler: This is attempted in Stirring The Storm, but the [=COLAs=] escape.]]
37	* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Dax's shapeshifting abilities are first triggered by stress.
38	* TwinTelepathy: The twin brothers Jacob and Alex Teller have a PsychicLink as well as a knack for impersonations.
39	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Dax Jones, any chance he gets. [[spoiler:Can take fox, falcon and otter forms.]]
40	* WickedStepmother: Gina, Dax's stepmother. She mistreats him badly to the extent of locking him out of the house on a roasting hot day with no water.

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