Trackers

Format:

Book

Title:

Trackers

Author:

Carman, Patrick.

ISBN:

9780545165006

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.

Physical Description:

214 pages : illustrations

Series title(s):

Trackers ;

Number in series:

BK. 1.

General Note:

"PC Studio."

Summary:

When the mysterious Glyphmaster tricks Adam into solving a puzzle and then hacks his computers, Adam, Finn, Lewis, and Emily are pulled into a mystery that is more trouble than they ever imagined.

Subject(s):

Computer crimes -- Juvenile fiction.

Tracking and trailing -- Juvenile fiction.

Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Implements, utensils, etc. -- Juvenile fiction.

Teenage detectives -- Fiction.

Genre:

Adventure stories.

Mystery and detective stories.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Mystery fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

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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....

Author Notes

Author Patrick Carman was born in Salem, Oregon on February 27, 1966. He received a degree in economics from Willamette University. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked in advertising, game design, and technology. He is the author of The Land of Elyon series, the Atherton series, and Skeleton Creek.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 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 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Horn Book Review

Four tech junkies find themselves in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game against a duo of mysterious hackers. The novel includes directions to a website where readers can view supplementary videos and solve puzzles alongside the characters; appendices provide scripts for readers without Internet access. Although it's an interesting concept, shallow characterizations detract from the story. Copyright 2010 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

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.--Morning, Todd Copyright 2010 Booklist