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The Flinkwater Factor (The Flinkwater Chronicles)
The Flinkwater Factor - The Flinkwater Chronicles Author:Pete Hautman Ginger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this hilariously quirky science fiction novel from National Book Award?winning author Pete Hautman. — Welcome to Flinkwater, Iowa, home of the largest manufacturer of Articulated Computerized Peripheral Devices in the world. If you own a robot, it probably came from Flinkwater. — Me... more »et Ginger Crump, the plucky, precocious (and somewhat sarcastic) genius who finds herself in the middle of a national emergency when Flinkwater?s computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Ginger?s words, they?ve been ?bonked.?
When Ginger?s father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon they?re up against a talking dog, a sasquatch, and a zombie, while Flinkwater is invaded by an army of black SUVs led by the witless-but-dangerous Agent Ffelps from Homeland Security. Can Ginger get to the bottom of the bonkings, or will computer chaos reign forever?« less