Gefangen im Cyberstorm. ( Ab 11 J.).

by Gloria Skurzynski

Distraught over losing her dog to the Animal Control Division, Darcy Kane steps into the Virtual Reality Rent-a-Memory machine that her neighbor often uses and becomes trapped inside with a virtual tornado when the machine goes haywire.

142 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

"May you live in interesting times."

That ambiguous wish was not meant to be kind, because interesting times can be difficult. You and I certainly live in interesting times - dangerous, challenging, and fascinating.

My parents were born just before the start of the twentieth century; my youngest grandchild arrived in this century's final decade. The years in between have been the most dynamic in the history of the human race. Technical knowledge has exploded; so has the Earth's human population. We can create almost anything, yet each day we lose parts of our planet that can never be replaced.

I'm greedy: I want to write about all of it - the history, the grief, joy, and excitement of being human in times past; the cutting-edge inventions of times almost here.

--from the author's website

Gloria Skurzynski has also co-written books with her daughter Alane Ferguson.

Reviews

[S · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book that i read was Cyberstorm written by Gloria Skurzynski, The lexile level for this book is 840, the book is about a girl who meets a older lady who supposedly called the animal control center about the young girls dog. She and her dad go and meet the lady and talk but end up getting the animal control to her house and then the young girls runs into this machine called the VROOM which it is a visual memory machine and she ran in there with her dog and the VROOM had started with her and her dog, she is going through all of the old ladies happiest memories with out the older lady in there. When she get in things get wores. They end up in the storm that the old lady was in. they get out but while they where in the middle of a vertual tornado.

There is this girl named Darcy, she had a dog named chip, she had moved not to long ago. She decided to taje her dog chip out on a walk and he started to bark when they got into the woods cause he say a bird, he chased it and barked and then they stumbled apon a old house and a old lady came walking out of it. He went back inside and dacy picked up chip and went back home. They got a message from 5 minutes ago, even befor darcy got home about a noise complante about there dog. They found out if they done give there dog up, they will have to pay a fea and have the dog removed from there home. The next morning they went to the lady they thought was her and tried to reson with her and she denide that she ever sent a noise complante. They were confused and stund by what she said! Then animle controle police shows up and tries to take the dog but dacy run into the VROOM which is a digitle memory machine. When she get in the VROOM the door jams shut and wont open and then the screen starts to play Mrs. Galoways happiest memores, later when they are all trying to get the door open wth darcy in it mrs. galoway fined the door almost open and she jumps in the VROOM and slams the door shut! Then she and darcy are in the VROOM and waiting for the next seen, mrs. Galoway ask: When does the next seen come up? Darcy: seems to get longer everytime” Mrs. Galoway: oh.. Im good at waiting! I’v been waiting for my life to end for while” Darcy was in shock with that mrs. Galoway had just said, later the a tornado strikes in the VROOM with darcy and Mrs. Galoway in it! The door finily opened just enoygh and they got out! This was the biggest news in thw rold and everybody was happy to see eachother! This was going down in history! News reporters! Police! Everything worked out in the end.

[kendalf broccoli · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was literally the worst book I have ever read , and that's coming from a 20+ year old male who read twilight.

[Kirsten Odom · Rating 3 out of 5]

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