In 22nd-century Cambridge, England, thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun must try to stop the strange, uncontrollable robots that were activated when a sinister-looking chip in her hand-held computer triggered a false anti-terrorist alert.
Fire and Flood
β Scribed by Victoria Scott
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.; Scholastic Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 562 KB
- Series
- Fire and Flood 1
- Edition
- First edition (US)
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0545537479
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β¦ Synopsis
A pulse-pounding thrill ride, where a teen girl must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life--and her own.
Time is slipping away. . . .
Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything.
Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.
The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges:...
β¦ Subjects
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