High Voltage — Anthony Price

Kellen is having trouble at school. He struggles to impress his tutor, Professor Drake, at the Zygonia School of Excellence, and he can't get the attention of the girl of his dreams, Linzi. And if he thought things were going to get any simpler, he was wrong. A freak accident in the lab leaves Kellen with the ability to control electricity. At first his transformation provides another way he can't lead a normal life, but he soon realizes that this might be just the thing to become something more than normal. It's a long way to the top if you want to be a superhero, but dressing as a masked vigilante -- whom he names Voltage -- Kellen soon finds himself in a plot to unearth the mystery behind the recent robbery of an ancient Egyptian staff at the Zygonia City Museum, which has left even the police stumped. Will Kellen be able to balance his private life and his newfound responsibilities, and has he met his match in the shadowy businessman who seems to be at the center of it all?