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Averil offline / Amy Noelle Parks.

by Parks, Amy Noelle.

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Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024.

Mobile apps -- Juvenile fiction.

Cell phones -- Juvenile fiction.

Computer science -- Juvenile fiction.

Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction.

9780593618646 (hc.)

199 p. ; 22 cm.

Twelve-year-old Averil is on a mission to find the creator of the phone app her helicopter parents use to keep track of her.

Averil's mom uses the Ruby Slippers surveillance app to check where Averil is, who she texts, and even what she eats for lunch. Averil is fed up with her lack of independence -- how is she ever going to grow up if she can't have some control over her choices? When she learns that Ruby Slippers is about to become even more invasive, she teams up with Max, a new kid at school, who's dealing with his own overbearing parents. Together, Averil and Max ditch their families and run away to the local college campus to find the lab of the quirky Ruby Slippers creator, who they hope to sway. To get their meeting, Averil and Max must work through a complicated series of puzzles, but Averil's a star coder and Max has a lot of smooth moves. As they follow the clues, they discover they make quite the team -- although what they learn about the Wizard of Oz-like inventor gets them thinking about honesty in a whole new light. After all, isn't trust at the heart of their parents' need to know?

Ages 10 and up. Nancy Paulsen Books.

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