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‘Rise of the Hackers’ is the first episode of a book series featuring three friends from Liverpool who will live an incredible adventure in New York.
Synopsis
Mara Turing receives a mysterious message right before leaving for her summer vacation: “I need your help.”Â
This cry for help comes from her uncle, a member of the famous group of hackers known as the “Dirtee Loopers.” He had disappeared without a trace five years ago, leaving a blank space in Mara’s life, which had a great impact on her childhood.Â
Mara and her friends embark on an adventure to find her uncle, Arnold Turing, that leads them to learn how to program in a garage in Queens (New York), see the world through more critical eyes, and face the evil duo: Hermes, an extremely advanced artificial intelligence, and Falko McKinnon, the most dangerous hacker in the world. Â
Susan –
What a great book! My nine year old son loved it, as I did ! (nearly forty) such an exciting story, plenty of laugh out loud moments and thrilling moments too. The premise of this story is pretty captivating. You end up learning about coding through their characters as well as the bad and good use of the technology nowadays. Couldn’t put the book down. The book keeps children and adults fully engaged the whole way through.
Ms Belinda Perez –
Like most kids, my son (12) loves video games, and at times it seems like is the only thing he likes. I am sure many of you can relate to that. After having read all his favourites authors, we have found difficult to find books he would be interested in. We were recommended this book by a friend who has a child similar age and decided to give it a go. I was not expecting much to be honest, it has been a while since he has been hooked by a book. He absolutely loves the book and has come off his video games the whole week so that he could read it. He has shared with me some in depth knowledge about how smartphones can track people or how hackers can access your device. He likes it so much that he has now asked me to sign him into robotics after reading this book. I would say this has been a win-win for us!
Nashira –
I gifted this book to my daughter as a birthday present. Through some school partners, she had heard of it and was curious about this hacker girl: Maia Turing. It took her only 4 days to read it, and now she is asking for the second book. I did review some pages and it seems an adventure that fits into nowadays boy’s culture. Mobile phones, videogames and laptops are all over around them (like now with this lockdown!) but in this story those devices can turn against their users if they don’t handle them carefully. Why? Because an evil artificial intelligence (Hermes) is messing around in the name of its owner (Falko) and his gang of crackers: The Dirty Loopers.
I am looking forward to the second book.
Yvette Rochester –
Granddaughter fully engrossed. Normally not a reader.
SunDowner2 –
I loved this book! My teen loved this book! My younger child will love this one one day. This is not only a great story, but it teaches kids the importance of being careful with electronics, but not in a preachy way. More of a, there’s a lot of fun out there…but there are some dangerous things too. These are clean books, the kids have to use their brains to think of outside the box solutions. Fantastic!