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M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in this teen debut from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix.When a coded note promises improvement - the chance to change your body any way you want, making it stronger, taller, more beautiful - Clair thinks it's too good to be true, but her best friend, Libby, falls into a deadly trap.With the help of the school freak and a mysterious stranger, Clair races against the clock and around the world to save Libby, even as every step draws her deeper into a deadly world of cover-ups and conspiracies.Action and danger fuel this near-future tale of technology, identity, and the lengths one girl will go to save her best friend.
About the Author
Sean Williams teaches writing, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington (1990) , with an emphasis in the musics of Indonesia and Ireland. She has a social media alter ego named "Captain Grammar Pants" on Facebook, which led to the creation of English Grammar: 100 Tragically Common Mistakes (and How to Correct Them) (Zephyros Press, 2019) .Her books in ethnomusicology include The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java (Oxford, 2001) , The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook (Routledge, 2006) , Irish Traditional Music (Routledge, 2010) , Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man (Oxford, 2011) , and others. She has had articles published in The New Hibernia Review, Béaloideas, Asian Music, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Current Musicology, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Yearbook for Traditional Music, The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, and several edited volumes.
