Plugged In: Books About Gaming & Computers

Do you have a computer obsessed kid?  They only want to play video games?  Try one of these books about gaming or computers . . .

Game Over, Pete Watson by Joe Schreiber
When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him.

Secret Coders by Gene  Luan Yang
Attending an elite school where enterprising students are challenged to solve a variety of clues and puzzles using computer programming, Hopper and her friend, Eni, resolve to crack the school founder's most elusive mystery together.

Trackers by Patrick Carman
Adam, Finn, Lewis, and Emily use their computer coding skills and high-tech equipment to catch criminals, but when they begin to track Shantorian, a dangerous hacker, things do not play out as easily as the four Trackers predict. Includes passwords for Web content.

Saving Thanehaven by Catherine Jinks
Set in a computer game, a knight is swayed away from the game's rules by the promise of winning the affections of a princess and ending his life of torment.


More Books --
Brainboy and the Deathmaster by Tor Seidler
Herbert's Wormhole by Peter Nelson
Into the Labyrinth by Rod Townley
Lunch Lady and the Video Game Villain by Jarrett Krosoczka
The Nerdy Dozen by Jeff Miller
Seriously, Norman! by Christopher Raschka
Slacker by Gordan Korman
The Tapper Twins Got to War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey
The Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen
Virtual Fred and the Big Dip by Vincent Courtney


Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through September 2, 2016.

Jolly Good Jousts

I love books of knights, dragons, and daring deeds.  So here are a few of my favorite stories . . .

Digory the Dragon Slayer by Angela McAllister
Digory, a gentle boy who likes to spend time alone in the forest and make up songs to sing, accidentally becomes a knight and reluctantly sets off to rescue damsels in distress, slay dragons, and marry a princess.

The Lovesick Salesman by Margaret Gray
Even after being refused admission to the Heroic Academy, Irwin, a lowly shopkeeper in the Kington of Coriander, longs to prove that he is a true hero and win the love of the beautiful, wise, Princess Julia.

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great by Gerald Morris
Relates tales of Sir Lancelot, the bravest knight in King Arthur's court.

Pagan's Crusade by Catherine Jinks
In twelfth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.

Knightley Academy by Violet Haberdasher
In an alternate Victorian England, fourteen-year-old orphan Henry Grim, a maltreated servant at an exclusive school for the "sons of Gentry and Quality," begins a new life when he unexpectedly becomes the first commoner to be accepted at Knightley Academy, a prestigious boarding school for knights.