{"id":31,"date":"2013-02-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:02:20","slug":"a-girl-named-digit-by-annabel-monaghan-fiction-fbi-takes-teen-math-genius-undercover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"A Girl Named Digit, by Annabel Monaghan (fiction) &#8211; FBI takes teen math genius undercover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aSNCY4J5HmI\/UQ_x1dopCyI\/AAAAAAAAKWM\/HtcEh0f5LpY\/s1600\/Girl%2BNamed%2BDigit.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" alt=\"book cover of A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan published by Houghton Mifflin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aSNCY4J5HmI\/UQ_x1dopCyI\/AAAAAAAAKWM\/HtcEh0f5LpY\/s200\/Girl%2BNamed%2BDigit.gif?resize=135%2C200\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/health\/2012\/04\/27\/real-beautiful-mind-accidental-genius-draws-complex-math-formulas-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">brain for numbers<\/a> that never, ever stops.<br \/>\nA hunger to have a normal senior year.<br \/>\nA set of digits on television that shouldn&#8217;t be there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And now Farrah goes from understated jeans to completely undercover as the FBI realizes that her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/culturally-speaking\/201207\/doubt-therapy-changes-thinking-patterns-in-people-ocd\" target=\"_blank\">OCD<\/a> about numbers and patterns is their best bet for catching an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/2012\/december\/eco-terrorist-surrenders-two-fugitives-still-at-large\/eco-terrorist-surrenders-two-fugitives-still-at-large\" target=\"_blank\">ecoterrorist<\/a> whose been sending others out to do his dirty work for years.<\/p>\n<p>Grab Digit&#8217;s first adventure now in hardcover or eBook at your local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\">library<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\">independent bookstore<\/a> (it won&#8217;t be out in paperback with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/hmh\/site\/hmhbooks\/bookdetails?isbn=9780544022485&amp;srch=true\" target=\"_blank\">much-better cover<\/a> until late May 2013) then hang on for Digit&#8217;s first year at college when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/hmh\/site\/hmhbooks\/bookdetails?isbn=9780544105775\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Double Digit<\/i><\/a>\u00a0 is published in January 2014!<\/p>\n<p>Which of life&#8217;s codes would you be most anxious to crack?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><b>Book info<\/b>: A Girl Named Digit \/ Annabel Monaghan. Houghton Mifflin, 2012. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.annabelmonaghan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author&#8217;s website<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/hmh\/site\/hmhbooks\/bookdetails?isbn=9780547668529&amp;srch=true\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/51294247\" target=\"_blank\">fan-created book trailer<\/a>] <b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div><b>My Recommendation<\/b>: To get away from the kids who nicknamed her \u201cDigit\u201d for her math abilities, Farrah transfers to another high school for her senior year. But it\u2019ll take the FBI to keep her safe from the terrorist group that she accidentally exposes. Faking her own kidnapping wasn\u2019t quite the way she\u2019d planned to stay unnoticed at her new school\u2026<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Farrah wishes that she didn\u2019t see patterns in everything and has had to learn extreme coping strategies to blunt her obsessive-compulsive tendencies when real life is uneven and disorganized. Her math professor dad says she can put her \u201cgift\u201d to work later in life and urges her to enjoy being a teen for now. Wish it were that easy\u2026<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Numbers pop up on television when they shouldn\u2019t be there, but the station says she\u2019s imagining them. Her genius skills crack the code, pointing to a terror attack at JFK Airport, but her report to the FBI is ignored\u2026until it happens.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now a ruthless band of ecoterrorists is gunning for Digit, so she has to fake being kidnapped and go undercover to help the FBI break the rest of the code to prevent more attacks and catch the terrorists. Nice to really be appreciated for her skills, even nicer to be undercover with cute young FBI agent John as they race to interpret more clues.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But somehow, the bad guys find one of the safe houses, John and Digit have to go into deep cover without contacting anyone, and the stakes in this math puzzle get deadly in a hurry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How fast can they unravel the last parts of this puzzle?<\/div>\n<div>What will the ecoterrorists\u2019 next move be?<\/div>\n<div>Will Digit\u2019s \u201ckidnapping\u201d have an unhappy ending?<\/div>\n<p>(One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brain for numbers that never, ever stops. A hunger to have a normal senior year. A set of digits on television that shouldn&#8217;t be there&#8230; And now Farrah goes from understated jeans to completely undercover as the FBI realizes that her OCD about numbers and patterns is their best bet for catching an ecoterrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19],"tags":[7,70,16,79,18,39,15,74,9,21,35,33,60,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","tag-beliefs","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-environment","tag-family","tag-love","tag-relationships","tag-research","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2012","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}