By William Sleator
One after the other, 5 sixteen-year-old orphans are dropped at an odd development. it isn't a jail, now not a clinic; it has no partitions, no ceiling, no flooring. not anything yet unending flights of stairs prime nowhere ?except again to a wierd crimson laptop. The 5 needs to discover ways to love the computing device and allow it rule their lives. yet will they enable it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of brain regulate is a vintage of technological know-how fiction and may hang-out readers lengthy after the final web page is turned.
?An intensely suspenseful page-turner.? ?School Library Journal
?A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . since it emerges in simple terms slowly from the chilling events.? ?Kirkus Reviews
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It would take at least twenty minutes for them to retrace their steps and another twenty to come down the subway tunnel. That should give the group a short time to recover before going up to street level to find God knew what kind of chaos. Before they faced it, they needed to rest and arm themselves. The power was out in the terminal too and emergency lights cast the area in a gloomy glow. Ari spotted a glass-fronted convenience store and headed toward it, sweeping his gaze from left to right.
Somehow he'd taken charge, but he had no business doing it. He was no leader. Lila and Deb picked up some of the scattered items from the floor to make space to sit, while Mrs. Scheider tried to make a call on her Blackberry. "Still not getting a signal," she announced. "Me either," Hector said. " Ann came from the cooler with arms full of bottled water and headed toward the checkout. Ari stopped her. "Uh, there's nobody to take your money. " "Oh, of course. " Her blue eyes were wide and dilated.
He listened hard, trying to hear beyond the stumbling feet and harsh breathing of the little group of travelers. The concrete tunnel echoed so it was difficult to tell what he heard, but he thought there were footsteps coming from behind them. The girl whimpered and gripped his shoulders, her little fingers digging in. She smelled like strawberry gum and sweat. Maybe he was supposed to give her some kind of encouragement or tell her not to worry, but he saved his breath for trotting faster. " The voice sounded like Ann, that woman who'd wanted to stay behind.