Just Like Click

2025-26 Oregon Battle of the Books Selection
2024 Foreword Indies Finalist, Juvenile Fiction
2024 Winner, Northern Lights Book Awards, Middle Grade Fiction
2024 First Place, Gertrude Warner Book Awards, Middle Grade

Nick Townley has lived his entire life—all eleven years—at Black Butte Ranch, nestled in the foothills of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains. While his parents push him to study, practice sports, and make friends, Nick prefers to retreat into his superhero universe and create exciting Adventures of Click comics. When a string of robberies threatens Dad' s job, forcing them to move across the country, Nick' s world implodes. He loves his home, and what will he do about the 237,000 dollars in cash under his bed that Great Gramp gave him before he died?

Desperate to stop the move, Nick steps off his comic book pages and ventures into the night as Click, an undercover superhero. Catching thieves would be a lot easier if he had actual superpowers. When three new kids discover his identity and want to join him, Nick vows to stay undercover... until he realizes even a superhero needs friends. But can he ask them to put their lives in danger to save his home?

What would Click do?

Sandy Grubb's debut middle grade novel, Just Like Click, has won numerous awards recognizing finely crafted middle grade fiction. Sandy hopes her books will help spark a love of reading in children. Sandy studied English and French Literature at Stanford University, followed with an elementary teaching program at U.C. Berkeley. She has put her passion for words and kids together to become a children's author. When not at home in Oregon, Sandy and her family can often be found exploring nature and traveling around the world. She has been to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro and explored all seven continents.