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David Lubar, . . Tor, $17.95 (300pp) ISBN 978-0-7653-0149-9
The Nexulans are intergalactic content creators, the Hollywood moguls of the universe. One of their most popular products is a series of small discs that, when activated, allow the user to "experience great moments in the life of a legend" in Earth's history. When a Nexulan ship crashes, some of the discs land near a middle school—where twin eighth-graders Ryan and Taylor McKenzie discover them. Ready-for-anything Ryan jumps at the chance to use the discs, while his straight-laced, A+-average sister wants to turn them over to the authorities. Ryan is the first to figure out how they work: after a quick flip, he absorbs the disc into his palm, and he literally becomes the hero whose life it chronicles. Suddenly the boy who was last in sports, failing in school and a constant disappointment to his parents finds himself in the minds of such historic figures as Babe Ruth, Einstein and Gandhi. Lubar's prose may not be as lean here as in
Reviewed on: 07/14/2003
Genre: Children's
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