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2) Slacker
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English
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When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming -- but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it...
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Gavuriru doroppu auto volume 1
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141 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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When Gabriel White Tenma descends from heaven to attend high school and guide humanity, a new found video game addiction might ruin her good intentions.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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English
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Sent outside by their mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when their handheld game falls into the pond before they encounter giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken them to the sensory aspects of nature.
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Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 5
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English
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Riley Shiner is obsessed with a video game based on a real haunted house in his neighborhood. He has played the game so often he knows it by heart, but there's a level he just can't seem to beat. Riley and his twin sister Scarlet know the haunted house is full of monsters and evil spirits, but decide to spend the night there anyway.
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285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies, watching copious amounts of television, gorging on Pop-Tarts, debating who would win in a brawl (Rocky Balboa or Freddy Krueger? Bruce Springsteen or Billy Joel? Magnum P.I. Or T.J. Hooker?), and programming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night. Then Playboy magazine publishes photos...
8) Gamer army
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English
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Even though he is only twelve, Rogan Weber is an obsessed gamer, whose motto, ego sum maximus, declares his confidence in his own abilities, and whose parents are also deeply involved in ultra high tech (a little too deeply sometimes); naturally he is thrilled to receive an invitation to join a tech giant's virtual reality TV gaming contest--but as the games become more and more intense and dangerous, he and his fellow gamers realize that something...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
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214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Español
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In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
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234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
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Six months after the desperate battle atop Central Cathedral, Alice Synthesis Thirty returns to Rulis Village with the catatonic Kirito. A melevolent presence in the Dark Territory stokes the fires of war and readies a full-scale invasion of the human lands.
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293 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Seventeen-year old Matthew Munson's a high school dropout, doing little with his time but playing an outdated video game called Bash Bash Revolution and hanging around Dairy Queen with his girlfriend Sally. That is, until his missing dad turns up. Jeffrey Munson is a computer geek who'd left home when Matthew was young to work on a top-secret government AI project, and has been a sporadic presence in his son's life. Now he's back, but as Matthew...
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410 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.
With loving adoptive parents, Rev Fletcher has managed to keep the demons of his past at bay... until he gets a letter from his abusive father. Emma Blue spends her time perfecting the computer game she built from scratch, rather than facing her parents'...
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441 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes" -- unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception...
15) Slay
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321 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Kiera enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.
Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the few Black kids at Jefferson Academy. At home she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card...
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141 pages : black and white, illustrations ; 20 cm
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Español
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Este libro reúne siete historias que se abren, como las puertas de una casa lúgubre, para narrar el misterio de un videojuego; unas vacaciones desconcertantes en la playa; el encierro en un edificio abandonado; el tener que cuidar a un tenebroso viejo que está a punto de morir; la lucha por rescatar a un bebé del limbo; el asedio de seres extrañosy la invasión de insectos molestos. Sé valiente y atrévete a leer estas escalofriantes narraciones...
17) Power up
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214 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Miles and Rhys know each other only as GRYPHON and BACKSLASH, and in the video game Mecha Melee they're an unstoppable team. They're the best friends they've got, online or in the real world. But real-life wrongdoing blasts their duo into a crater the size of Arcticon. With life online and off a complete mess and BattleCon--and the Every Game Ever tournament--just weeks away, can the boys play their way back to each other?"--Page [4] of cover.
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91 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Runt and his crew are back...As they prepare for the epic battle against the evil incarnate of Minecraftia: Herobrine, they know they'll be stronger together, but first they have to get Sweetpea on their side. Unfortunately, the baby dragon does what he pleases. As they contemplate their best strategy, Runt and Blurp have the same nightmare: Herobrine won't let anyone get out alive...unless they give him back Sweetpea. What should they do? Do they...
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Slacker volume 2
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English
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"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
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91 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this adventure, Runt and his friends return from the End and are looking forward to taking a break. When they arrive, they are greeted by villagers who throw a great feast in their honor. But things are not quite what they seem... After defending the village from a zombie attack, Runt and his crew decide to go back to Maggie's and regroup. However, they are deeply troubled by Alberic's disappearance and Bagel won't rest until she brings him back...
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