Ginger must save her high-tech hometown from robots gone rogue in this âquirky, dryly funnyâ (Booklist) science fiction novel from National Book Awardâwinning author Pete Hautman.
Welcome 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.
Meet Ginger Crump, the plucky, precocious (and somewhat sarcastic) genius who finds herself in the middle of a national emergency when Flinkwaterâs computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Gingerâs words, theyâve been âbonked.â
When Gingerâs father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon theyâre 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?