Hackers: A Byte-Size Friend

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Chris Alten has the good life. At thirteen years old, he is a star athlete and a sharp student. He has two loving, successful parents. His father, Bryan, works as a freelance government programmer and analyst. His mother, Laura, reviews new software for a computer magazine.

On Chris’s thirteenth birthday, his life changes. Driving home with his father from a baseball game, a tractor trailer runs their car off of an overpass. The crash kills Bryan Alten and leaves Chris paralyzed from the waist down.

Unable to adjust to his new life, Chris pulls away from his friends. The fact that he is always accompanied by an aide doesn’t help the situation.

Chris begins to bury himself in the anonymity of the Internet. In the chat rooms he frequents, no one knows him or knows that he is paralyzed. Then Chris discovers the birthday gift his father hadn’t been able to show him. It’s a computer program that is so much more than a program.

The program draws Chris out his shell, but it also winds up putting him in an even greater danger than the accident that killed his father.All Rights Reserved

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Hackers: A Byte-Size Friend
Wed, Apr 10, 2013

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