jeremy Heere Is Your Average High School Dork. Day After Day, He Stares At Beautiful Christine, The Girl He Can Never Have, And Dryly Notes The Small Humiliations That Come His Way. . . Until The Day He Finds Out About The Squip. This Pill-sized Supercomputer, When Swallowed, Is Guaranteed To Bring You Whatever You Most Desire In Life. By Instructing Him On Everything From What To Wear To How To Talk And Walk, The Squip Transforms Jeremy From Supergeek Into One Of The Most Popular Guys In Class. Soon He Is Friends With His Former Tormentors And Has The Attention Of The Hottest Girls In School. But Jeremy Eventually Discovers That There Is Also A Dark Side To Having A Computer Inside Your Brain-and It Can Have Disastrous Consequences.searingly Witty And Surprisingly Poignant-this Novel Heralds The Arrival Of A Hot New Talent In Ya Fiction. Ned Vizzini Began Writing For New York Press At The Age Of Fifteen. At Seventeen He Was Asked To Write A Piece For New York Times Magazine, Which Led To The Publication teen Angst? Naah . . . , His Autobiography Of His Years At A New York City High School, Which Was Selected As A Booksense 76 Pick. Now Twenty-two, Ned Lives In Brooklyn, New York.

who Wouldn't Want An Ingestible Super-computer-in-a-pill Designed To Make The Person Who Swallows It Way Cooler Than He Or She Ever Was? When Shy, Dorky Jeremy Heere Learns Of The Device-known As A Squip-he Knows He Must Do Whatever It Takes (in His Case, Steal And Sell A Portion Of His Unpleasant Aunt's Beanie Baby Collection) To Raise The $600 Necessary To Get One. Soon The Squip Is Installed In His Brain, Dispensing Such Crucial Nuggets As You Have To Talk As Per Rap-slash-hip-hop, The Dominant Music Of Youth Culture And Step One Is That You Stop Pacing And Get A New Shirt, Jeremy. All This Is In Service Of His Ultimate Goal: Winning The Affections Of Choosy And Self-assured Christine. Vizzini (teen Angst? Naaah...) Gives A Fresh Twist To Familiar Messages About Being Loyal To One's Friends And True To Oneself, Thanks To The Over-the-top Plot And Tangy Narrative. Readers Grappling With Their Own Social Status Will Appreciate The Fact That While The Notion Of Coolness May Be Satirized Here, It's Certainly Not Demonized Or Dismissed. Although The Squip's Advice Is Not Infallible, Jeremy's Life Really Does Improve Once He Polishes His Social Skills. Semi-cool, Would-be Cool And Even Cool Readers Are Likely To Be Entertained By The Wry, Nearly Anthropological Observations Of The High School Caste System, From A 23-year-old Author Who, As A Teenager, Wrote For The New York Press And The New York Times Magazine. Ages 13-up. (june) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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