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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
2) Vortex
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
3) Insignia
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
4) Game over
Author
Series
MindWar trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
311 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?"--
5) The leveller
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap"--
6) The glare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by a series of losses, including an accident that left his brother in a wheelchair, his father's abuse, and his mother's departure, sixteen-year-old Tosh escapes into a video game but soon, the game becomes much more real than his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When more glitches appear in the Minecraft world, Gameknight and his friends must travel deep underground to face the remains of Herobrine's henchmen and stop the server from overloading.
9) Slacker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
10) The God Game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God; as the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life or die.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as beneficent as most people think.
Author
Series
Press start! volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is time for the All-Star games, and Super Rabbit Boy wants to be crowned the Ultimate All-Star Champion, but with so many contestants, including the evil King Viking, he will need help from Sunny and his video game console to claim his prize.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
354 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, wheelchair-bound resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home's residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past--or even create new ones."--Amazon.
14) Catalyst
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"--
16) Glitch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Izzy gets sucked into the world of her new video game, where a robot named Rae tells her she is destined to save Dungeon City from the Big Boss.
Author
Series
Press start! volume 5
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"King Viking decides to find another planet where he can carry out his evil plans without interference, and everyone in Animal Town is delighted; then an alien appeals to Super Rabbit Boy for help and he blasts off to once again confront his enemy--but his level one rocket may not be up to the task." --
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 4
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To crack a secret code, Mac follows the clues to France and Japan where he must use his gaming skills and defeat his enemy, the KGB Man.
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