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Trackers (Trackers #1)
by
Patrick Carman (Goodreads Author)
Bestselling author Patrick Carman pushes the vbook to the next level with this thrilling book/video/web experience.
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 Trac...more
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 Trac...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
May 1st 2010
by Scholastic Press
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Another recommendation from Goodreads.
While the friends/sidekicks were tolerably well stenciled out, the lead character, Adam, was totally lacking in charisma. He wasn’t vulnerable enough or flawed enough for me to sympathise with him, and while he initially “looked coldly” on, he quickly went on to divulge a ton of information to his interviewer, betraying the initial two-second aloofness, and left the interviewer looking a lot snarkier and more interesting than himself.
The concept of the book...more
While the friends/sidekicks were tolerably well stenciled out, the lead character, Adam, was totally lacking in charisma. He wasn’t vulnerable enough or flawed enough for me to sympathise with him, and while he initially “looked coldly” on, he quickly went on to divulge a ton of information to his interviewer, betraying the initial two-second aloofness, and left the interviewer looking a lot snarkier and more interesting than himself.
The concept of the book...more
Note: I didn't watch a single one of the vids that showed what happened visually. I just read the back which provided what happened just fine. So...it probably explains some things.
After reading Carman's Atherton and Land of Elyon series', I was thoroughly impressed. After all, The Land of Elyon series is what made me start to read. And after I read the Atherton series, I was surprised that it could hold my attention even though it was directed to a younger audience and it was dystopian. (As you...more
After reading Carman's Atherton and Land of Elyon series', I was thoroughly impressed. After all, The Land of Elyon series is what made me start to read. And after I read the Atherton series, I was surprised that it could hold my attention even though it was directed to a younger audience and it was dystopian. (As you...more
This is another book that, first going into it, I really did not think much of it.
Once again, I was completely and utterly wrong.
I've never read a book that was written quite like this one. It was pretty much in first-person view, but different. This book actually felt like some kid named Adam was actually telling you a story. This book only took me a few hours to read since it was so short but during those few hours, I was completely hooked. I'm not exactly sure what made it that way, all I kno...more
Once again, I was completely and utterly wrong.
I've never read a book that was written quite like this one. It was pretty much in first-person view, but different. This book actually felt like some kid named Adam was actually telling you a story. This book only took me a few hours to read since it was so short but during those few hours, I was completely hooked. I'm not exactly sure what made it that way, all I kno...more
I couldn't decide between a 3 and a 4 for this book. It is edgy and innovative, but I fear not enduring. However, it might be the Wired equivalent of children's books -- completely trail-blazing, but will be dated in no time. Told as a transcript from an interrogation; the story unfolds about 4 teenagers who are tech-savvy and capable of hacking devices and creating portable platforms to spy and locate anyone/anything. Caught up in a web of deceit and encryption, they have to work as a team, equ...more
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Reason for Reading: I became a huge fan of Carman's after reading the Atherton series and was excited to read another book by him.
A book entirely written as an interview, an interrogation. 15 year-old Adam is being questioned by someone to go back to the beginning and tell them what happened. We have no idea who is doing the interviewing, though the assumption is that is that it is high ranking officials, either military or government. Though whether that assumption is true I have not ascertaine...more
A book entirely written as an interview, an interrogation. 15 year-old Adam is being questioned by someone to go back to the beginning and tell them what happened. We have no idea who is doing the interviewing, though the assumption is that is that it is high ranking officials, either military or government. Though whether that assumption is true I have not ascertaine...more
This is one of the coolest books I’ve read. It is the latest book in a new genre that is taking the reading experience to a different level. What am I referring to? The “Vook” genre; in other words, multi-media storytelling—a melding of traditional storytelling with online components. If you’ve got a kid at home (girl or boy) who would much rather be sitting in front of the computer screen than reading a book, this one’s for them.
The Trackers is a group of four friends who, although different in...more
The Trackers is a group of four friends who, although different in...more
The Short of It:
A fun, new series by the author of Skeleton Creek.
The Rest of It:
Patrick Carman has managed to do it again. In Trackers, we meet four tech-savvy teens, Adam, Emily, Finn and Lewis. They track the digital trails left behind by others and in doing so, become involved in the search for dangerous hacker. Or so it seems.
As with his previous books, Trackers combines reading with an online video component. As readers go through the story, they are provided with a password and directed t...more
A fun, new series by the author of Skeleton Creek.
The Rest of It:
Patrick Carman has managed to do it again. In Trackers, we meet four tech-savvy teens, Adam, Emily, Finn and Lewis. They track the digital trails left behind by others and in doing so, become involved in the search for dangerous hacker. Or so it seems.
As with his previous books, Trackers combines reading with an online video component. As readers go through the story, they are provided with a password and directed t...more
This is another book that, first going into it, I really did not think much of it.
Once again, I was completely and utterly wrong.
I've never read a book that was written quite like this one. It was pretty much in first-person view, but different. This book actually felt like some kid named Adam was actually telling you a story. This book only took me a few hours to read since it was so short but during those few hours, I was completely hooked. I'm not exactly sure what made it that way, all I kno...more
Once again, I was completely and utterly wrong.
I've never read a book that was written quite like this one. It was pretty much in first-person view, but different. This book actually felt like some kid named Adam was actually telling you a story. This book only took me a few hours to read since it was so short but during those few hours, I was completely hooked. I'm not exactly sure what made it that way, all I kno...more
Fast-paced story about four tech-savvy teens who get unwittingly involved in a scheme to take down the entire Internet. Adam created "The Trackers" team to test his spy cameras and gadgets, and he runs their operations from his high-tech Vault loaded with surveillance camera monitors and tons of software and hardware he created himself. But he can't resist snooping when The Glyphmaster leaves him a coded message--using the very code Adam invented! A cool concept--not only is the story fun, but t...more
Carman, Patrick. (2010). Trackers. New York. Scholastic. (150pp.)
Looking for a book that will keep you on your toes, which makes you want to keep reading? Pick up a copy of Patrick Carman’s book, Trackers. You can find it in any local book store in the Young Readers section.
Adam, Finn, Emily, and Lewis are all friends and they call themselves the Trackers, Adam is “the brain behind the Trackers”. Finn is the risky one, and he always pushes stuff to the limit. Emily is the fearless one, nothing...more
Looking for a book that will keep you on your toes, which makes you want to keep reading? Pick up a copy of Patrick Carman’s book, Trackers. You can find it in any local book store in the Young Readers section.
Adam, Finn, Emily, and Lewis are all friends and they call themselves the Trackers, Adam is “the brain behind the Trackers”. Finn is the risky one, and he always pushes stuff to the limit. Emily is the fearless one, nothing...more
Teen techno geek Adam Henderson and his three friends spend their time designing and testing homemade video surveillance equipment. Things heat up when a cyber criminal breaks into Adam's system and steals all his software code and hardware blueprint files.
GOOD: very innovative multimedia format requires you to watch short online video clips every so often.
BAD: kind of annoying to have to stop reading and go watch an online video clip.
GOOD: The book is quite short, 153 pages.
BAD: you don't actua...more
GOOD: very innovative multimedia format requires you to watch short online video clips every so often.
BAD: kind of annoying to have to stop reading and go watch an online video clip.
GOOD: The book is quite short, 153 pages.
BAD: you don't actua...more
Trackers, by the same author as Skeleton Creek, is about a boy named Adam who is a tracker, along with his friends Finn, Emily, and Lewis. They test out new computer software and video cameras, all just for fun. However, when Adam discovers a website designed specifically for him and his friends, he meets a girl named Zara and a man named Lazlo, who stole all of Adam's data and tempted to put it out on the web. They said that they wouldn't if he unleased the Raymond codes for them, which are the...more
Adam, Lewis, Finn & Emily (The Trackers) are four smart kids who spend their time inventing, building and testing technological gadgets. They work out of Adam’s workshop located at the back of his Dad’s computer repair shop. The kids are smart, but one particular day they aren’t quite smart enough. A hacker manages to infiltrate their carefully (they thought!) encrypted & secure computer files. The hacker wants something and is willing to blackmail the kids to get it. He wants the Tracke...more
Trackers by Patrick Carman, is an interesting book about a kid named Adam who is a computer savvy techy who is notorious on the internet for creating new technologies. He realizes when he is 12 that he is truly lonely so he meets three people with totally unique personalities but respect him none the less. After a couple of months, he showed them his secret computer room called the vault that was state of the art and was more powerful than any computer the government had in the pentagon. The gro...more
This story is interesting. From the beginning, Adam is being interrogated, but you don't know by whom. Initially, I was annoyed at having to go to a computer to watch video, but after a few trips, I started to get hooked on the video clips. You can read the transcripts of the videos in the appendix at the back of the book, and I admit, I started to, but it just wasn't the same. The story main focus is on computers and technology, but even a computer newbie would not be lost in the story. The det...more
I just read this fascinating book by Patrick Carman, one of the 39 clues authors (the one in Russia which happens to be my favorite). It's meant to be part book, part movie. I didn't watch the video clips on-line, because that's not my thing, but I read the book and accompanying transcripts and was completely captivated. The story is about a group of friends, lead by a super-bright teenage boy, who get caught up in a series of traps with criminal implications. It's told in an interview style whi...more
Wow! What a fantastic book. I loved the Skeleton Creek series, but this was even better. I liked how everything ended up, and I cannot wait to read the sequel. There were so many things I was not expecting, like how it ended with Lazlo and Zara. It also makes me wonder WHO in the book is doing the interview of Adam? Where are the others? Will book two solve all those answers?
And then there is the website. I like that it is interactive. I enjoyed trying to solve the Glyphs, but I failed miserabl...more
And then there is the website. I like that it is interactive. I enjoyed trying to solve the Glyphs, but I failed miserabl...more
Definitely left me hanging, which I'm not sure I always totally like. Nevertheless, I will definitely be picking up the second Trackers book as soon as I can. I especially liked that the video transcripts were included in the appendices. Sometimes I just didn't feel like firing up the computer and checking out the videos. Thinking as a school librarian, I think kids would be totally in to this just based on the videos, but wonder if the content is too "techy" for students? Not all kids are into...more
Trackers: Book One was interesting. I don't think it was the griping story that I really hoped/expected. The entire book sort of felt like the first scene of a play where all you get is exposition. Maybe the second book will really move the story along and add some drama, if not, the series will fall flat. I realize the book is directed at techies and supposed to be interactive, but the approach didn't work well for me. Every chapter, there would be a "video" that you could either go online and...more
Patrick Carman is a master at writing an interesting, fast-paced book and combining it with digital media. In this new series, a group of four friends, known as the trackers, stumble upon something and have to use their smarts to figure out what is going on. The story is told by Adam, who is the main character, as he talks about what happened in the past. There are video clips and passwords that you can go online and watch as well. If you are lazy like me, then there are transcripts at the back...more
Adam is a computer wizard- from when he was a toddler he has been inventing and re-imagining the computer parts cast aside by his father's electronic repair biz. Mom is a writer. A family of affectionate introverts, Adam realizes as he enters school this year, he will have to reach out and meet people to develop.
Enter Finn who he meets one day when ditching school. This leads to becoming friends with Lewis and Emily. They embark on a surveillance project that spins out of hand.
Told as a deposi...more
Enter Finn who he meets one day when ditching school. This leads to becoming friends with Lewis and Emily. They embark on a surveillance project that spins out of hand.
Told as a deposi...more
Genre: Science Fiction
Copyright: 2010
Thoughts: I like the interview format and all of the appendices. I viewed one online video (which are all transcribed in the appendices) but I found it interfered with my vision of the characters. It's word for word though, so it might help reluctant/struggling readers, or readers who love videos/multimedia. The passwords throughout the book unlock the web videos which is fun.
Worst cliffhanger ending! Worse than the Lemony Snicket books (which go on for 39 bo...more
Copyright: 2010
Thoughts: I like the interview format and all of the appendices. I viewed one online video (which are all transcribed in the appendices) but I found it interfered with my vision of the characters. It's word for word though, so it might help reluctant/struggling readers, or readers who love videos/multimedia. The passwords throughout the book unlock the web videos which is fun.
Worst cliffhanger ending! Worse than the Lemony Snicket books (which go on for 39 bo...more
If you loved the Skeleton Creek books, this one's for you. I'm not exactly tech savvy, but I still understood this YA thriller about some code-breaking, technology wizkids who get themselves involved in a potentially catastrophic plot to usurp OR save all the power granted us by internet technology. Themes include spying, inventing, plotting, teamwork, manipulation, national and international security, etc.
The novel requires the internet to read. This is Dan Brown's novel, Digital Fortress, for...more
The novel requires the internet to read. This is Dan Brown's novel, Digital Fortress, for...more
I bought this specifically for the male, computer loving 9th graders in my class. A charity purchase that has surprised me by how much I am enjoying it so far.
Finished the book: One strong caveat. The book might as well end with the guy hanging off the cliff. There has to be a book two so don't expect a satisfying end-of-the-book resolution. This is somewhat annoying.
I enjoyed the read. A series of interviews and explanations between what we assume is a detective and the protagonist/computer ge...more
Finished the book: One strong caveat. The book might as well end with the guy hanging off the cliff. There has to be a book two so don't expect a satisfying end-of-the-book resolution. This is somewhat annoying.
I enjoyed the read. A series of interviews and explanations between what we assume is a detective and the protagonist/computer ge...more
Jul 09, 2011
Shaeley Santiago
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
tech-savvy teens, spies
Recommended to Shaeley by:
Deborah Hipes
Shelves:
young-adult
A neat, multi-media book that integrates online video clips and other info on a website into the story line. Alternatively, you can read transcripts of the video from the appendices if you don't have internet access while reading. This series does an even better job than 39 Clues Complete Collection of integrating the web material with the storyline of the book.
The story is told by Adam Henderson as he's being interviewed by someone with a high security clearance. Adam tells how he and his three...more
The story is told by Adam Henderson as he's being interviewed by someone with a high security clearance. Adam tells how he and his three...more
Trackers is a new series from Patrick Carman that incorporates videos on the Internet with the written text to create an interactive reading experience (similar to the author’s previously published Skeleton Creek series). The text is laid out like the transcript of a police interview in which Adam is retelling the events that have presumably led up to his detention. This set-up makes for a fast-paced story. At certain points throughout the book, the reader is given passwords that can be used to...more
When Adam started doing the glyphmaster puzzle, he suddenly gets hacked by an anonymous person, which has never happened before because Adam is one of the best computer programmers on Earth. The hacker stole all of Adam's inventions and blackmailed him to program the Raymond Backdoor (a program that allows you to access anything that is on the internet). Adam did as he was told but was secretly trying to find the hackers and record their crime on video with his team he Trackers. In the end, Ada...more
Trackers is what they call themselves, a group of friends who hack and experiment with computers, cameras and whatever technology they can get there hands on. Everything is fine until they get drawn into a trap that ends up with all four of them in FBI custody.
This story is particularly awesome because at the end of every section you can view the video of the FBI interview along with online streams made by the Trackers and locked away only to be opened "in case something goes wrong". This is a...more
This story is particularly awesome because at the end of every section you can view the video of the FBI interview along with online streams made by the Trackers and locked away only to be opened "in case something goes wrong". This is a...more
I like the idea of an action book oriented at the middle school ages, and one that is supplemented with online activities. However, I thought this one was a bit flat and the characters a little too stock like.
The online videos and games are fun, but accessing them in the middle of reading breaks up the narrative. While the reader can read transcripts of the videos in the appendices, readers with limited or no internet access will feel left out.
Despite the downsides, there is an audience for this...more
The online videos and games are fun, but accessing them in the middle of reading breaks up the narrative. While the reader can read transcripts of the videos in the appendices, readers with limited or no internet access will feel left out.
Despite the downsides, there is an audience for this...more
This book was alright. I found it interesting at the beginning, and i expected it to get better throughout. It did get progressivly better in the middle and toward the end, but i found this book a little hard to follow. The main character Adam and his friends Lewis, Emily, and Finn, are "Trackers." They track villans through a system they call The Vault. But Adam gets them involved into a system called the Glyphmaster. It takes them on a wild ride and sends them in a path no one would of expecte...more
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I have been a lifelong writer and storyteller. Salem, Oregon is where I spent my formative years and I graduated from Willamette University. After college, I spent a decade living in Portland, Oregon where I worked in advertising, game design, and technology.
I've written young adult and children's books for Scholastic, Little Brown Books For Young Readers and Katherine Tegen Books/ HarperCollins P...more
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