The Flinkwater factor : a novel in five thrilling episodes / Pete Hautman.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2015]Edition: First EditionDescription: 249 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481432511 (hardcover)
- 1481432516 (hardcover)
- 9781481432528 (pbk.)
- 1481432524 (pbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Hautman Pete | Available | 33111008123776 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ginger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this hilariously quirky science fiction novel from National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman.
Welcome to Flinkwater, Iowa, home of the largest manufacturer of Articulated Computerized Peripheral Devices in the world. If you own a robot, it probably came from Flinkwater.
Meet Ginger Crump, the plucky, precocious (and somewhat sarcastic) genius who finds herself in the middle of a national emergency when Flinkwater's computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Ginger's words, they've been "bonked."
When Ginger's father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon they're up against a talking dog, a sasquatch, and a zombie, while Flinkwater is invaded by an army of black SUVs led by the witless-but-dangerous Agent Ffelps from Homeland Security. Can Ginger get to the bottom of the bonkings, or will computer chaos reign forever?
Ages 9-13.
Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.