The This is line of Marvel's World of Reading early readers is designed to offer reluctant readers books they will want to read by featuring the origin stories of characters they love.

Peter Parker is an average teenager in Queens. He goes to school, lives with his Aunt May, and is a photographer for the The Daily Bugle newspaper. Until one day, a radioactive spider bites him on a field trip and gives him super powers! Peter now has all the powers of a spider―he can climb walls, shoot webs, has super-strength and his spider-sense warns him of danger!

Learn how Peter Parker puts his powers to good use and becomes the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man―a super hero.