A Very Personal Computer |
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Author:
| Rendal, Justine |
Series title: | Joanna Cotler Bks. |
ISBN: | 978-0-06-025404-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | Joanna Cotler Books |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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What if one day you were sitting in front of a computer and the impossible happened: it started communicating with you and actually offered to do your homework for you? Just when twelve year-old Pollard Gunning is giving up on almost everything--eighth grade, the Red Sox, his lousy home life--that's just what happens. And that's only the beginning. Next Pollard is learning how to be a dream batter--and how to ask a girl out on a date. Suddenly, Pollard's mixed-up world takes a...
More DescriptionWhat if one day you were sitting in front of a computer and the impossible happened: it started communicating with you and actually offered to do your homework for you? Just when twelve year-old Pollard Gunning is giving up on almost everything--eighth grade, the Red Sox, his lousy home life--that's just what happens. And that's only the beginning. Next Pollard is learning how to be a dream batter--and how to ask a girl out on a date. Suddenly, Pollard's mixed-up world takes a techno-turn and the "year of weird" also becomes the year a very personal computer comes to the rescue. Justine Rendal has written a fresh, funny, and moving novel about loss and love and unlikely friendships that shows how sometimes even the impossible can be wonderfully possible.
1996 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)