Independent Reading Level: Grades 3-5
Awards: No Awards

Independent Reading Level: 2nd to 5th grade

Awards: It is a best selling book

This is a kid's novel about a kid trapped in a video game and the adventures he experiences. This helps with the student's imagination, and I am sure that kids will be interested in this type of novel because it is about technology and video games. A strong message this novel focuses on is friendship. ( )

Jesse has to travel inside a videogame in order to save his friend ( )

Jesse is not a fan of video games, but his best friend Eric is obsessed with Full Blast, an alien invasion game that a classmate's father has provided to some of the boys in his son Chris's class. While looking for Eric, Jesse comes upon the game on the television in Eric's basement, and gets sucked into the game. His right hand is replaced by a blaster, and he and Eric have to play the game. As the game proceeds, they find out that a boy who has gone missing in their neighborhood has also been sucked into the game, and they discover that there is a significant bug in the programming that they have to figure out how to fix the game before they are stuck as well. Of course, since this is the first in a five book series, we know that further adventures await the boys. A short lesson at the back of the book on computer coding and how games are put together is interesting.