Trackers

Author: Carman, Patrick

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 224

Details:

Bestselling author Patrick Carman pushes the vbook to the next level with this thrilling book/video/web experience. In the 21st century landscape of bits and bytes, everyone leaves a digital footprint ... even the most advanced cyber criminals. And that’s where the Trackers come in. Four tech-savvy kids armed with high-tech video cameras and esoteric coding skills, the Trackers can find almost anyone, anywhere. Told through a collage of videos, text, and websites, Trackers #1 follows Adam, Finn, Lewis, and Emily as they become entangled in a high-tech, high-stakes game of cat and mouse with Shantorian, the world’s most dangerous hacker. At least, that’s who they think they’re tracking.... From School Library Journal Grade 5-9 Fifteen-year-old wunderkind Adam Henderson grew up tinkering with the discarded components at his father's computer-repair shop and was soon given his own little annex called The Vault, a place where he could hang out and work on his gadgets. By sixth grade right around the time he met Finn, Emily, and Lewis Adam was making enough money selling virtual stuff to hard-core gamers to allow him to begin developing an impressive portfolio of wireless surveillance gear. The kids discovered that they had complementary skill sets perfect for cyber-sleuthing, and the Trackers were born. In this first book of what will likely be a popular series, Adam and the Trackers have been drawn into a cryptic cat-and-mouse game by a brilliant and beautiful young woman named Zara who turns out to be working with an older accomplice named Lasko. He has managed to hack into The Vault and steal Adam's portfolio of inventions and threatens to release his designs to the public unless Adam can quickly crack a code that'll provide Lasko with backdoor access to all of the world's banks. This is an ingenious and entertaining mystery on several levels, and readers are given successive passwords to a Trackers website as the story unfolds. The site contains short videos (transcripts of which are also provided in an appendix) that help readers visualize story elements and solve the mystery, making this an excellent choice for reluctant readers. Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist In a novel that unfolds as an extended interrogation with mysterious officials, Adam Henderson describes how he recruited three other teens to become trackers, the opposite of hackers, who try to protect the public from Internet criminals. The team stumbles onto a global, criminal plot, but nothing is as simple as it seems at first: the bad guys turn out to be government agents, who recruit the four into their ranks to help locate an evil computer mastermind, a shadowy figure that will no doubt be further developed in future installments of the series. This novel joins the growing list of multiplatform titles, and readers are invited to log onto a related, slick Web site (complete with menacing sound effects) to decipher plot-related puzzles and watch videos that flesh out the story. Many young people will no doubt be intrigued by the expanded media storytelling techniques offered here, but a computer companion isn’t necessary; some of the same Web-based material is also included in the appendix to this exciting adventure. Grades 6-9. --Todd Morning

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Praise for Trackers

"An ingenious and entertaining mystery." ―School Library Journal

"It is almost impossible not be caught up in this unconventional series and its many twists and touches of humour." ―Booklist

"This is a tale of intrigue and double crossing, with more twists than one can keep track of.

" ―VOYA

About the Author:

Patrick Carman is the bestselling author of numerous series for young readers, including The Land of Elyon, Elliot’s Park, Skeleton Creek, Atherton, Trackers, Dark Eden, and 3:15. He got his start as a storyteller weav...

EAN: 9780545165006

Release Date: 11-05-2010

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Hardcover Used - Like New Ships fast! 20101st Edition

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Hardcover