Averil Offline

By Amy Noelle Parks

Two kids rebel against parental surveillance, seeking freedom and truth.

4.1/5 Goodreads · 433 ratings

208 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Twelve-year-old coder Averil is under constant watch by her parents through the Ruby Slippers app. Teaming up with Max, a fellow student with similar struggles, they devise a plan to escape their parents' control. Their journey leads them to the creator of the app, where they must solve puzzles to uncover the truth. As they confront the challenges, Averil and Max begin to question the balance between privacy and trust. Will they find the freedom they seek, or discover something more valuable along the way?

From the publisher

A fun, fast-paced story about a girl determined to cut the cord with her helicopter parents. Twelve-year-old coder Averil can’t do anything without her parents knowing. That’s because her mom uses the Ruby Slippers surveillance app to check where she is, who she texts, and even what she eats for lunch. Averil wonders how she’s ever going to grow up if she’s not allowed to learn from mistakes. When she learns that Ruby Slippers is about to become even more invasive, she teams up with Max, a new kid at school dealing with overbearing parents of his own. Together they figure out an almost foolproof way to ditch their parents and run away to the college campus that’s home to the quirky Ruby Slippers creator. It’s an extreme challenge just getting to meet with him–but the two kids cleverly figure out a series of puzzles and get their meeting. What they find gives them pause–and gets them thinking about the value of honesty in a new light. After all, isn’t trust at the heart of their parents’ need to know?

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