Click'd Series, Book 1 by Tamara Ireland Stone

Author:Tamara Ireland Stone [Stone, Tamara Ireland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Nathan slid over and gave Allie her chair back.

“See anything sketchy?” she asked.

He made a face. “People take some weird pictures,” he said, “but no, everything looked legit.”

Allie wondered how many pictures were slipping out there without her even knowing it.

She had to fix it. But she didn’t know how. And she couldn’t ignore that anymore.

Nathan didn’t say anything, but he didn’t have to. He knew Click’d was broken. He could tell the judges. He could win G4G.

“Are you close?” he finally asked. She knew what he meant.

“I don’t know. I found the problem last night. I spent hours tweaking the code and testing it, but I can’t get it to pass. Every time I think I’ve fixed the photo issue, something breaks somewhere else. It’s all interconnected,” she said, interlacing her fingers together. “I can recode all the photo-related stuff, but not by Saturday.”

The room got quiet while Allie waited for Nathan to give her a lecture about the Games for Good rules. He was going to have far too much fun with this, and she was dreading every second. But then, he looked her right in the eye and said, “The store isn’t charging for paint.”

“What?” she asked.

Nathan tilted his monitor in her direction. She could see his little characters running around the neighborhood, carrying ladders from one house to another, dashing back and forth across the street, and speeding into the hardware store.

“It was working fine. But then I made a bunch of little changes last week—minor things, just cleaning up code and stuff.” He clicked the mouse a few times and zoomed in on the store. She could see the rows of supplies—bins filled with tiny bolts and screws, shelves displaying hammers and screwdrivers, and big push brooms lined up against one of the walls—and once again, she found herself in awe of the details in his imaginary world.

She watched as a woman with blond hair and a red sweatshirt stepped up to the counter holding a bag of nails, and the man behind the counter totaled her purchase. Her player information appeared in the corner of the screen, and as soon as he clicked on the register, fifty points were deducted from her total.

“It’s charging for nails and screws and tools, but as soon as someone comes in and buys paint, it doesn’t charge them. And paint is the most expensive item.”

“Who’s going to notice that?” Allie asked.

“The judges. All they have to do is look at my error logs.”

“You have error logs?” she asked.

“You don’t?” Nathan asked. Allie shook her head.

If she’d had error logs, she would have known about the photo glitch before Zoe had. She would have had a trail to follow. Instead, she had no clues at all.

A little animated character in a blue cap stepped inside the hardware store, grabbed a hammer from the wall of tools, and took it to the register.

“So that’s what you were trying to fix yesterday?”

Nathan nodded. “Yeah. And the day before. And pretty much all last weekend.

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