Girl Gone Viral

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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Ahmadi, Arvin
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Ahmadi, Arvin	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"The inventive and hauntingly timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom, reminiscent of The Social Network with a Ready Player One twist. For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She can build entire worlds from scratch -- shimmering lakes, Mars craters, any virtual experience her heart desires. But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget. Until now. Because WAVE, the world's biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal's dad. The one she always believed might know where he went. The one who maybe even murdered him. What begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control when Opal goes viral, digging her deeper into a hole of lies, hacks, and manipulation. How far will Opal go for the answers -- or is it the attention -- she's wanted for years?" -- Provided by publisher.
For Opal Hopper, code is magic. She can build entire worlds from scratch-- but she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday Opal tried desperately to find him. Now she's enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies, and WAVE, the world's biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal's dad. The one she always believed might know where he went. The one who maybe even murdered him. As what begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control, how far will Opal go for the answers she's wanted for years?

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Intriguing book submitted by accountsfpd on June 17, 2019, 11:07am Girl Gone Viral is a very cool sci-fi book with intricate plotting and deep, in-depth knowledge and explanations about technology that could one day be real. It explores several themes, and I really enjoyed reading it.