{"product_id":"the-flinkwater-factor-9781481432528","title":"The Flinkwater Factor","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pete Hautman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGinger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this \"quirky, dryly funny\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e) science fiction novel from National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to Flinkwater, Iowa, home of the largest manufacturer of Articulated Computerized Peripheral Devices in the world. If you own a robot, it probably came from Flinkwater. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet Ginger Crump, the plucky, precocious (and somewhat sarcastic) genius who finds herself in the middle of a national emergency when Flinkwater's computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Ginger's words, they've been \"bonked.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Ginger's father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon they're up against a talking dog, a sasquatch, and a zombie, while Flinkwater is invaded by an army of black SUVs led by the witless-but-dangerous Agent Ffelps from Homeland Security. Can Ginger get to the bottom of the bonkings, or will computer chaos reign forever?","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087093784727,"sku":"9781481432528","price":300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781481432528.webp?v=1767639949","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-flinkwater-factor-9781481432528","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}