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Davies, Jacqueline. |
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Sixth-grader
Maggie
Gallagher is a
hacker- but
her target
isn’t
computers. She
takes after
her late
father, who
while
attending MIT
learned to
“hack”—to pull
wildly
elaborate
practical
jokes. Stuck
in the
stagnant small
town of
Odawahaka,
Maggie
imagines
conversations
with him while
living and
breathing by
his notebook,
The Hacker’s
Bible. Not
surprisingly,
Maggie is
‘nothing but
trouble’,
especially
after she
teams up with
a new girl in
town named
Lena. Their
dilapidated
school is
about to be
demolished, so
the pair
concoct a
scheme to have
a mascot mouse
be elected
class
president, in
honor of the
fabled mice
that live
within the
school’s
walls. This is
indeed the
story of a
mouse that
roared, as
what begins as
a prank turns
into a
movement,
empowering not
only Maggie
and Lena, but
all of their
classmates to
stand up
against the
dictatorial
new principal,
Mr. Shute. (Vermont
Dorothy
Canfield
Fisher Book
Award,
2018) |
| SUBJECTS: Friendship -- Fiction. Humorous fiction. Middle schools -- Fiction. Practical jokes -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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