Authors: Julia Durango
The Leveller (17 page)
Photo by Lori Nicoli
JULIA DURANGO
lives in Ottawa, Illinois, with her two teenage sons. She first fell in love with video games when she bought a Nintendo 64 for her oldest son, Kyle, on the birth of his baby brother, Ryan. Many hours of game play and several game systems later, both boys have long surpassed Julia in video-gaming prowess, though she still clings to a time when Kyle would beg her to beat the bosses for him in
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
and Ryan envied her super-posh village in
Animal Crossing
. You can visit her online at
www.juliadurango.com
.
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THE LEVELLER
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Durango, Julia.
     The leveller / Julia Durango. â First edition.
          pages     cm
     Summary: “Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap”â Provided by publisher.
     ISBN 978-0-06-231400-0 (hardcover)
     EPub Edition © June 2015 ISBN 9780062314024
     [1. Virtual realityâFiction. 2. Video gamesâFiction. 3. Adventure and adventurersâFiction. 4. Science fiction.] I. Title.
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