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Rendal, Justine
A VERY PERSONAL COMPUTER
New York : HarperCollins, 1995.
IL 5-8 RL 6.6
ISBN 0060254041
Pollard is a 12 year old boy who has skipped a couple of grades in school. He's now in 8th grade but his grades are falling since he lost his mother in "the accident". His teacher assigns him a drill and kill computer program to help him catch up. Imagine how Pollard feels when the computer starts acting as if it knows Pollard. Join Pollard as he experiences virtual reality with his own very personal computer.
SUBJECTS:     Computers -- Fiction
                        Schools -- Fiction

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