Virtually PerfectYip 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…. |
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... fake blood spurt out the tip when he moved the knife along skin . " Corn syrup and red food coloring , " he revealed . " Oldest trick in the book . " " What about the blood on your shirt ? " one of the officers asked . " It's a blood ...
... fake blood spurt out the tip when he moved the knife along skin . " Corn syrup and red food coloring , " he revealed . " Oldest trick in the book . " " What about the blood on your shirt ? " one of the officers asked . " It's a blood ...
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... me . I turned seventy in 1995. That was the year Toy Story came out . Then came Twister and Independence Day . The movie studios didn't need anybody to make monsters or model spaceships or fake gunshots Don't Try This at Home 23.
... me . I turned seventy in 1995. That was the year Toy Story came out . Then came Twister and Independence Day . The movie studios didn't need anybody to make monsters or model spaceships or fake gunshots Don't Try This at Home 23.
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... Fake knives , Willis , " Grandpa explained . " Guns that shoot blanks . " " It's still a gun , Pop ! Mrs. Harrison freaked out ! She thought Yip shot you . " " That old biddy Liddy needs to lighten up , " chuckled Grandpa . " We were ...
... Fake knives , Willis , " Grandpa explained . " Guns that shoot blanks . " " It's still a gun , Pop ! Mrs. Harrison freaked out ! She thought Yip shot you . " " That old biddy Liddy needs to lighten up , " chuckled Grandpa . " We were ...
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