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Flinkwater Factor


School year: Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 256

Published: 2015

Great for age 7-14 years

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Ginger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this quirky, dryly funny (Booklist) science fiction novel from National Book Awardwinning 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 Flinkwaters computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Gingers words, theyve been bonked. When Gingers father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon theyre 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?

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-8th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-13 years.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster .

Pete Hautman won the National Book Award for his novel Godless. He is also the author of the acclaimed novels The Big Crunch, How to Steal a Car, Rash, Invisible, Sweetblood, Hole in the Sky, No Limit, and Mr. Was. His home in the world is Minnesota, and his home on the web is www. petehautman. com.

 

"Middle grade fans of Carl Hiassen's mysteries will enjoy Hautman's inventive characters and plot." * School Library Journal *

 

"Hautman weaves the plot threads together cleverly, but it's Ginger's dry humor, an equally colorful supporting cast, and the lore (and tech) of Flinkwater that make the story so enjoyable." * Publishers Weekly *

 

"Fast, funny episodes featuring creative takes on close-to-reality science." * Kirkus Reviews *

 

"Hautman, a National Book Award winner, makes his first foray into middle grade with this quirky, dryly funny offering of a maybe-future." * Booklist *

 

"Fast-paced action, quirky characters, and amusing dialog make this a quick, fun read with a satisfying conclusion." * School Library Connection *