Snoop
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart, the story of a boy who's stuck at home with two broken legs... and who starts using cameras and a drone to spy on his classmates, neighbors, and a possible criminal who's come to town.
If Carter hadn't been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slopes in his direction. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not have two broken legs right now.
Oops.
Now Carter is stuck at home for weeks, with both his legs in casts. Bored, he starts checking out the live feeds from police cams around his town. Before he knows it, he's obsessed -- watching his classmates when they don't know he's looking, and discovering some other VERY STRANGE things going on that no one else is noticing.
But what happens when Carter is found out... and the people he's watching know where he lives?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
While 12-year-old Carter Peregrine is on a ski trip with his divorced father—who's conspiring with Carter's mother to lower his screen time by making him do something outdoorsy and active—Carter breaks both legs and must spend the next two months recuperating at home in North Carolina. Though he initially treats his recovery time as a vacation, Carter quickly grows bored. Soon he hacks into public security cameras to spy on his classmates, including his crush, Lacey. His covert people-watching then morphs into anonymous do-gooding, as Carter uses all the technology at his disposal (mostly his cellphone) to prevent potential crimes and help people in need. Then he starts spotting endangered animals, such as a red panda and a swift fox. When he anonymously reports his findings to the authorities, and they refuse to believe him, Carter determines to solve the case of the animals' presence, all the while keeping tabs on his friends and the rest of the community. Korman (Old School) invokes his trademark blending of middle school mundanity and absurdly humorous antics. Idiosyncratic characters contend with themes of trust, privacy, and responsibility in this fast-paced, rollicking contemporary homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Main characters default to white. Ages 9–12.
