The Drone Pursuit
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2019 · Est. 3 hour read

The Drone Pursuit

Written by Victor Appleton

Book #1 in the Tom Swift Inventors' Academy series

A young inventor uncovers a hacker's identity while facing threats and a school virus attack.

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144 pages· 22,953 words· Est. 3 hour read
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Tom Swift, a young inventor at a tech academy, suspects the custodian might be a notorious hacker. With his friend Noah, Tom uses a virtual reality drone to investigate. As they dig deeper, Tom receives threatening messages, and a virus hits the school servers, endangering Swift Enterprises. Can Tom and his friends solve the mystery before chaos ensues?

From the publisher

The Hardy Boys meets Alex Rider in this start to a brand-new series starring everyone’s favorite inventor–Tom Swift! When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you’re bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class. At the academy, once class starts and the drone is parked, their brainiac friends then launch into farfetched discussions about the curriculum. And when they watch a documentary about the FBI’s most wanted hackers from the eighties, they quickly start speculating that the academy custodian is one of them. At first, Tom dismisses the idea as another one of his friends’ conspiracy theories. But using their new drone, he spies the custodian acting suspiciously around school. As Tom and his friends search for evidence that the custodian is the missing hacker, the signs become impossible to ignore when Tom gets threatening messages that warn him away from investigating. And when someone releases a virus in the school servers, all bets are off as the adjoining servers at tech giant Swift Enterprises come under fire. Can Tom and his friends uncover the true culprit before it’s too late?

At a glance
Format
Pages
144
Words
22,953
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
620L
Themes & topics
Books about friendshipBooks about technologyBooks about schoolBooks about inventionsBooks about hackers
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The fine print

Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.5
F&P level
~O
AR points
3
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
510128
Publication
Published
July 2, 2019
Publisher
Aladdin
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781534436305

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