{"id":6164,"date":"2015-06-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:16:51","slug":"lois-lane-fallout-by-gwenda-bond-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lane: Fallout, by Gwenda Bond (book review) – Metropolis, new reporter, online dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Stay out of trouble,
\ndon’t get involved…
\nwhen a friend is being bullied?
\nYeah, right.<\/p>\n

Lois Lane is a born investigator, and her Army dad’s latest move puts her into a virtual reality<\/a> mystery at her newest school – yes, that Lois Lane and the Daily Planet<\/em>\u00a0 and an online-only friend who calls himself SmallvilleGuy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the free prequel short stories here<\/a> (look below the book cover on left), then head to your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> to get Lois Lane: Fallout<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When have you stood up against bullying?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Lois Lane: Fallout (Lois Lane, book 1) \/ Gwenda Bond. Switch Press\/Capstone, 2015.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Unnerved by the tech gang at her newest school, fledgling reporter Lois investigates its hush-hush ‘field trips’ and uncovers dangers that her online pal SmallvilleGuy and her Army general father can’t ignore.<\/p>\n

She promised herself to fly under the radar at Metropolis High, but Lois can’t stand bullies. The Warheads move in unison, finish each other’s sentences, and work on a special virtual reality project off-campus. Now, they want to ‘assimilate’ computer whiz Anavi who feels them pressing on her mind.<\/p>\n

Recruited by editor Perry White for the Daily Planet’s new teen reporting team, Lois investigates the Warheads, finding weird connections between the principal and a local research lab.<\/p>\n

While new friends on the Scoop team back her up during her research, her online friend SmallvilleGuy (who is he, really?) warns Lois about ARL and its virtual reality plans.<\/p>\n

Can Lois keep Anavi safe from The Warheads?
\nAre their minds truly connected?
\nWill she ever meet SmallvilleGuy outside the virtual reality game worlds?<\/p>\n

A smart and subtle prequel to the Superman saga that we all know so well, Lois Lane: Fallout<\/em>\u00a0 balances high-tech gone wrong with friendship done right.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stay out of trouble, don’t get involved… when a friend is being bullied? Yeah, right. Lois Lane is a born investigator, and her Army dad’s latest move puts her into a virtual reality mystery at her newest school – yes, that Lois Lane and the Daily Planet\u00a0 and an online-only friend who calls himself SmallvilleGuy. […]<\/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":[237,19,51],"tags":[22,4,259,197,11,20,5,70,16,18,40,44,13,116,43,49,194,15,9,21,66,57,35,33,58,3,8,28,59,61],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-blogathon2015","tag-bullying","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-growing-up","tag-memories","tag-military","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-war","tag-writing"],"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\/6164","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=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}