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Crusader

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By Edward Bloor
Publisher HMH Trade
Crusader
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Roberta Ritter has been waiting for a knight in shining armor for most of her humdrum life. Shes a doormat, a nobody whose mother died a few years back, a smart girl who wastes her afternoons working in a failing arcade in a failing shopping mall. And then a Crusader arrives. . . .Only this Crusader is a virtual reality war game, one that does a booming business at the arcade, despiteor perhaps because ofthe controversy over its racism and violence.Robertas boring life explodes. Onetime friends become bitter enemies, strangers reveal themselves as allies, and Roberta discovers the truth about her mothers death. In uncovering whats real and not just virtually real, Roberta learns to stand up for herselfand, maybe, to become her own crusader.

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143063 words143,063 words
400 pages400 pages
Lexile 510LLexile 510L
Published 1999Published 1999

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Book ISBN:

9780152019440

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