The Eyes of Kid Midas is aYoung Adult Novel byNeal Shusterman. It stars Kevin Midas, anOrdinary Middle School Student who stumbles upon a pair ofReality Warping sunglasses. At first, it's great--Kevin can have anything he wants. In the mood for an ice cream cone? Bam: there it is. But it doesn't take long before things start to fall apart, as Kevin quickly discovershow dangerous godlike powers can be...

• All Just a Dream: Played with both literally and figuratively (in regards to the mentioning ofThe Dreamtime.)
• Addictive Magic
• Black Best Friend: Josh.
• Bully Hunter: Once Kevin discovers the power of the glasses, he takes it upon himself to humiliate the bullies who picked on him. It goes a bit farther than he would have liked.
• Clingy MacGuffin: As Kevin uses more and more of the glasses' power, they gradually become a part of his body.
• Disproportionate Retribution:Lampshaded; Kevin is scolded for what he does to Bertram. "Nobody deserves that."
• Dragged Off to Hell: Kevin tells Bertram to "Go to Hell." The ground promptly opens up and swallows him.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Bertram'sBerserk Button is when his mother is insulted.
• Fantastic Drug: Intense highs, crippling addiction and withdrawal--pretty straightforward metaphor.
• It Got Worse: Reality is warping. The world is going mad. Things look pretty dark for Kevin. That's whenJosh gets wiped from existence by the glasses. And thentime stops. Andthenthe glasses shatter. Crap.
• Keep-Away: Hal and Bertram play Keepaway with Kevin's (ordinary and mundane) glasses in the beginning of the book, breaking them.
• Love Potion: Kevin attempts to use his powers to get his crush to fall in love with him. It doesn't work because she's already in love with him; all it does is creep her out.
• My Future Self and Me: At the end of the book, reality is sufficiently warped that it more closely resembles a dream. Fittingly, Kevin encounters a future version of himself who is visiting the past in a dream and exits accompanied by the sound of a ringing alarm clock.
• Ordinary High School Student: Seventh grade. Close enough.
• Porn Stash: Josh and Kevin find one of their dads'Playboy magazines and put it back, feeling mildly embarrassed.
• Power Incontinence
• Power Limiter: The glasses can do anything... exceptundo what they've already done.
• Real After All: Kevin's class is out on a camping field trip with his class, visiting a mountain that's sacred to the local native tribe. His teacher tells a campfire story about how the mountain is supposedly the eye of God, and once a year, the tip of its shadow falls exactly on another sacred spot in the valley below. It's just a story, as the teacher later admits, but when Kevin climbs the mountain, guess what he sees?Kevin was wearing the glasses, so his believing in the story made it come true.
• Reality Bleed: Towards the end of the book, Kevin's subconscious thoughts start to bleed into reality, inadvertently reshaping the world.
• Reality Warper
• Reality Warping Is Not a Toy
• Reset Button
• Rhetorical Request Blunder: SeeDragged Off to Hell.
• Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot: The Sorcerer in this case being God.
• Time Stands Still: Kevin yells "Stop". And it does.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The first clue that Kevin's power is getting out of control is that people stop noticing the changes he makes, believing that things have always been that way.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
• Your Mom: "Yourmother's a pine cone."

• Work
• Fantasy Literature
• Young Adult Literature
• The Eyes of Kid Midas
• Literature