503010
9781550224405
For ages 9-12. Thirteen-year-old Chuck Farris is a video game hotshot. He knows every trick of every game worth playing. Chuck has conquered them all. The one thing Chuck couldn't conquer is town bully Digger McGraw. One day, Chuck comes home with a black eye and two broken toes. Unable to play sports, he is bored sick. That's when his mother brings home a PlayStation2 with five hot new games. Chuck beats the first game no problem. But the next day in maths class, something strange happens. Chuck turns into the video game superhero! And so it goes. Every time Chuck beats a game, he turns into its real-life superhero. At first, it's great to be able to scare the school bully half to death. But being a video game superhero gets Chuck into trouble too -- with his mother, his teachers, the principal, the basketball coach. It's hard to tame a superhero. When you've got power, you wanna use it! Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness is an adventure-packed novel -- the first ever written about a real video game console -- that offers hot-breaking tips about Sony's PlayStation2.Gresh, Lois H. is the author of 'Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness An Action Story About Play Station 2' with ISBN 9781550224405 and ISBN 1550224409.
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