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Trackers: #1 Hardcover – 1 August 2010

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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 . . . As the four dig deeper into the shadowy world of online crime, they soon learn that things aren't always as they seem.
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    Scholastic Inc
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    1 August 2010
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    14.6 x 22.86 x 1.21 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0545165008
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0545165006
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Inc (1 August 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 213 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0545165008
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0545165006
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.6 x 22.86 x 1.21 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

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Patrick Carman

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Patrick Carman is a bestselling children’s author with over four million books in print including perennial favorites Skeleton Creek, Atherton, 39 Clues, Floors, Fizzopolis, and The Land of Elyon. Mr. Carman’s books have been translated into 26 languages.

Skeleton Creek, one of Mr. Carman’s most popular series, has won or been nominated for the following awards:

Nevada Young Readers’ Award

Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards

New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award shortlist

Children’s Book Council book of the year nominee

Delaware Diamonds Shortlist

Oregon Battle of the Books Shortlist

Patrick Carman writes books for young adults and children for Scholastic, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, and Little Brown Books For Young Readers, and launched Gokidgo in 2019 to visit schools on a broader scale.

Patrick Carman on his mission:

Since 2003, I’ve been writing books for young readers and spending a lot of time on the road, meeting them where they’re at. More than 2500 school visits later, I can report from the field that kids still love books, even as a tidal wave of distraction try to keep them from turning pages. Books still shape young minds, and they still provide unparalleled advantages every kid needs. My mission after nearly two decades and thousands of school visits hasn’t changed: get every kid excited about reading, because reading helps every kid thrive.

When I visit schools I always ask lots of kids the same question: what’s keeping you from reading? Let me count the ways! Netflix, YouTube, Fortnite, Minecraft, Snapchat, Roblox, and Instagram top the list. None of these things are bad in and of themselves, but taken together, they build a wall around books that can be difficult for a kid to climb. That’s why Skeleton Creek goes looking for kids where they are. Through the use of video content and words, Skeleton Creek draws kids in and hooks them on reading. Sometimes we just have to be willing to meet them halfway.

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Wa Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
Reviewed in the United States on 14 February 2013
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I had to read this book as part of a college course and really enjoyed it. Targetted for a younger audience of kids who are interested in science, this book is engaging and has good character development.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Very interesting plot, we were kept wondering what is really happening!
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Nancy
5.0 out of 5 stars Trackers: Book 1
Reviewed in the United States on 19 March 2013
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Bought for my grandson who's a follower of these types of books. Not sure whether he's read this one yet.
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Randi Morse
5.0 out of 5 stars Ingenius Idea to Encourage Reluctant Readers
Reviewed in the United States on 27 August 2010
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We now live in a highly digital world, and because of this many children are losing the love of simple things, like reading. I remember when Harry Potter first came out, the owner of my favorite bookstore remarked that she hated that Rowling had made up language, but that she absolutely loved that the books were encouraging young children to read. Now, of course, they don't have to read the books but can simply pop in the DVD to learn about Harry.

Patrick Carman has done something that no one has ever done before him - meshed books and the internet together to create something that's not only highly enjoyable to read, but that is also very appealing to younger readers. Trackers follows computer genius Adam and his three friends, Lewis, Emily, and Finn, on a technological adventure the likes of which none of us has ever seen before.

This is how it works: you start reading the book, which is, interestingly enough, written in an interview format. When you get to the end of each section of interview, the book directs you to the website, [...] where you can see exactly what Adam is showing the person who is interviewing him. This helps kids to not only see what the characters look like, but to actually hear their voice as well, making it much easier to play their own "movie" in their head when they're reading the story.

Carman really went all out, as not only did he have [...] created, but he also had some of the same puzzles that use Glyphs recreated on the website as well, and let me tell you, I'm an adult woman and the puzzles definitely messed me up!

Apparently Carman did the same thing in his novel series of Skeleton Creek, and I'm definitely interested in snagging that series, as this is, in my mind, the perfect way to get children interested in reading once again. And it's also really fun for adults - I'm not sure if I'm willing to give this book up to my 9 year old or not!

Congratulations Carman for making reading fun for those who are technologically savvy!
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Joshua Senecal
3.0 out of 5 stars A nice idea, but it doesn't come together well.
Reviewed in the United States on 11 January 2011
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In a nutshell, if you're a tech-oriented late elementary school or middle-school student with a good Internet connection right on hand and a high tolerance for the unbeliveable, you may find this to be interesting and entertaining.

The book tells a tech-oriented adventure. The narration makes reference to videos and things that help explain the plot, so accompanying the book is a web site, where the reader can go to watch the videos. The videos are fairly well done and do contribute to the story. The problem is, unless the reader has an Internet connection really close by they're going to have to wait until later to see the videos. This means either reading a chapter, running for the computer to watch a video, reading another chapter, running for the computer again, etc., or reading several chapters, then later watching several videos. Either way, it's disruptive.

So this isn't a book you're going to want to read, say, on a car trip, either.

The book's appendices contain transcripts of the videos, but it's not the same. Some of the videos illustrate things graphically that the written transcripts cannot.

As for the story itself, I wasn't really able to get into it. The plot is in the "super-smart whiz kids get themselves into something sinister" genre, and the main character (Adam) is just too unbelievable. As a young teenager his computer skills are already off the charts, so to speak, and he's building all sorts of clever gadgets, writing security code used by major corporations, and earning scads of virtual currency online. Oh, yes, and in one seventeen-hour all-nighter he repairs 24 computers that Microsoft, with all its resources, couldn't fix. Right.

Plus I don't like his attitude.

The story is told as verbal narrative: the main character is being interrogated and relates events that happened some time in the past. But it didn't have the feel of a verbal narration; the language and descriptions used in the narration are not the types that someone would use when speaking.

If this were done as a pure electronic book (combining text and videos) it would be a lot better.
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