Virtually Perfect

Dan Gutman

Hyperion Book CH, 1999 - Juvenile Fiction - 128 pages

Yip Turner spends more time playing computer games than with other kids. For him, virtual reality usually beats reality! So when his dad, a movie special-effects designer, brings home new software for creating virtual actors, Yip is psyched. He and his sister create "Victor," a boy who is smart, handsome, and charming-perfect in everyway. But when Victor leaves cyberspace and invades their world, Yip realizes that there are bugs in the virtual-actor software. Now his family-and possibly the whole country!-may be in danger….

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 3
• Victor the Vactor: 35
• Personal Business: 91

About the author

Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Virtually Perfect
• Author: Dan Gutman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Hyperion Book CH, 1999
• ISBN: 0786813164, 9780786813162
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General