A hunger to have a normal senior year.
A set of digits on television that shouldn't be there...
And now Farrah goes from understated jeans to completely undercover as the FBI realizes that her OCD about numbers and patterns is their best bet for catching an ecoterrorist whose been sending others out to do his dirty work for years.
Grab Digit's first adventure now in hardcover or eBook at your local library or independent bookstore (it won't be out in paperback with the much-better cover until late May 2013) then hang on for Digit's first year at college when Double Digit is published in January 2014!
Which of life's codes would you be most anxious to crack?
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Book info: A Girl Named Digit / Annabel Monaghan. Houghton Mifflin, 2012. [author's website] [publisher site] [fan-created book trailer]
My Recommendation: To get away from the kids who nicknamed her “Digit” for her
math abilities, Farrah transfers to another high school for her senior year. But
it’ll take the FBI to keep her safe from the terrorist group that she
accidentally exposes. Faking her own kidnapping wasn’t quite the way she’d
planned to stay unnoticed at her new school…
Farrah wishes that she didn’t see patterns in everything and
has had to learn extreme coping strategies to blunt her obsessive-compulsive tendencies
when real life is uneven and disorganized. Her math professor dad says she can
put her “gift” to work later in life and urges her to enjoy being a teen for
now. Wish it were that easy…
Numbers pop up on television when they shouldn’t be there, but
the station says she’s imagining them. Her genius skills crack the code,
pointing to a terror attack at JFK Airport, but her report to the FBI is
ignored…until it happens.
Now a ruthless band of ecoterrorists is gunning for Digit,
so she has to fake being kidnapped and go undercover to help the FBI break the rest
of the code to prevent more attacks and catch the terrorists. Nice to really be
appreciated for her skills, even nicer to be undercover with cute young FBI
agent John as they race to interpret more clues.
But somehow, the bad guys find one of the safe houses, John
and Digit have to go into deep cover without contacting anyone, and the stakes
in this math puzzle get deadly in a hurry.
How fast can they unravel the last parts of this puzzle?
What will the ecoterrorists’ next move be?
Will Digit’s “kidnapping” have an unhappy ending?
(One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.
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