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When an anonymous graffiti smear campaign begins against unpopular Doris Haywood, sixteen-year-old Jenny investigates, discovering in the process a champion football player in jeopardy, a young life cut tragically short, and a cover-up attempt.
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Grade 8 Up-- As Jenny Price juggles junior-year classes, Youth for Literacy activities, and her grandfather's art showings, she makes room for one more assignment--sleuthing. Jenny vows to track down the "Eye of the Dragon," an audacious hacker who sends cryptic warnings via the school's computer system. However, before she can identify the culprit, the messages change in style and substance, suggesting that more than one dragon is tampering with the mainframe. Then Jenny discovers a link between the threatening messages and two tragic events--a football player's drug-related death and classmate Doris' attempted suicide. Jenny and Doris are believable in their actions and appearance, but occasionally these 16 year olds use expressions or make references that are inappropriate for their generation, e.g. "he's no spring chicken," and "Madame Queen" (Amos 'n' Andy). The plot is burdened with too many characters, extraneous excursions into the catering business and art world, and copious computer messages that ultimately become tedious. The jacket illustration promises a light computer caper, not a hybrid mystery/contemporary problem novel. Readers seeking a fast-paced and gripping mystery should find Johnston's Return to Morocco (Four Winds, 1988) more satisfying. --Pat Katka, San Diego Public Library
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0027477010
- ISBN 13 9780027477016
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages172
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