Streams of Babel

By Plum-Ucci, Carol

Publishers Summary:
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.

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ISBN
978-0-15216-556-7
Publisher
Harcourt


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 2008

Gr 8-11 In 2002, high school outcast Cora Holman's mom dies of a mysterious brain aneurysm, preceded by flulike symptoms. Then Cora, Owen Eberman, and two of their friends gradually come down with a similar ailment. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, 16-year-old computer genius and cyber-spy Shahzad, who is working for the U.S. government, has uncovered information about a terror threat called Red Vinegar, and he is taken...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on May 1, 2008

This harrowing thriller sifts through a kaleidoscope of perspectives to tell the story of a biological attack on an insignificant New Jersey suburb, focusing on the four young adults primarily affected. High school students Cora and Owen have little in common until their mothers die of a strange "flu" within twenty-four hours of each other. Scattered clues and suspicions, pursued by Owen's paramedic older brother, Scott, build to the realization that the illness was part of a terrorist attack on the water s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2008

This harrowing thriller tells of a biological attack on a New Jersey suburb, focusing on the four young adults, complicated and distinct,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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