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When twelve-year-old Yip uses his father's new software to make a computer simulation of a boy his age, the creation breaks out of cyberspace into the real world and begins to complicate Yip's life.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gutman, Dan
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1998.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Computers > Juvenile fiction. Science fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	When twelve-year-old Yip uses his father's new software to make a computer simulation of a boy his age, the creation breaks out of cyberspace into the real world and begins to complicate Yip's life.
Physical Description:	123 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0786803940 (tr.) 0786823445 (lib)
Author Notes:	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. (Bowker Author Biography)