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Adventures in extreme reading volume 5
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Uncle Dan Hunter is taking his virtual reality program public, and thirteen-year old Carter and his cousin Isabelle are helping him demonstrate the suits at a children's bookstore--but when a blackout fuses Wind in the willows with Peter Pan, Carter has battle pirates and weasels to rescue the two children trapped in the suits.
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
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Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 4
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It turns out Storm never had Uncle Dan at all! He is now safe at home and the virtual reality system is secure against all hacking. Uncle Dan has finished his prototype and arranged for a buyer. The buyer, a young woman, says she wants to try the suit first and she needs a guide. So Carter agrees to enter Great Expectations with her. What the family doesn't know is the young woman is actually Storm and she's got one last trick up her sleeve -- revenge!
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Adventures in extreme reading volume 6
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Until now Uncle Dan has only used classic books in his program, so being commissioned to turn a new manuscript into a virtual reality world sounds exciting--but while they are testing the program, Isabelle realizes that the book is plagiarized from The purloined letter, and it is up to Carter to teach the author a lesson.
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After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
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As part of his thirteenth birthday Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his Cherokee family's lakeside home; one day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous and as the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV flips over and he is injured, and it is up to the boys...