The Flinkwater Factor, 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481432511)

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?

Author: Pete Hautman
ISBN-10: 1481432516
ISBN-13: 9781481432511
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 181747 / Flinkwater Factor


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015
School Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015
Booklist 07/01/2015 pg. 72
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2015