The Computer Wizard

by Alex Shearer

When a boy presses the wrong button on his computer, he becomes stuck inside it. He worries that his jealous sister might turn off the computer, then has to cope with a lost lemming, a computer bug and other strange creatures from computer games. Illustrated in black and white.

88 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Alex Shearer started his writing career as a scriptwriter and has had great success in that field. His credits include The Two of Us, the 1990s sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst. More recently he has started writing for children. His Wilmot stories have been adapted for TV by Yorkshire television, and his children's novel, The Greatest Store in the World, was screened as a feature length TV film on Christmas Eve 1999 by the BBC. Alex's recent novel 'The Speed of the Dark' was shortlisted for the 2002 Guardian Fiction Prize

Alex Shearer lives with his family in Somerset. He has written more than a dozen books for both adults and children, as well as many successful television series, films, and stage and radio plays. He has had over thirty different jobs, and has never given up trying to play the guitar.