STRANGE ADVENTURE IBD

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Sam and Luke vanish: there one second, gone the next. That&rsquo,s the last thing Kitty Strange expected to happen while in her lounge after school with her best friend Lizzie, Luke&rsquo,s twin sister, and Toby, Kitty&rsquo,s twin brother. Where have her younger sister and Luke disappeared to?Minutes later, Kitty, Toby, and Lizzie materialize in a parallel world, with just one clue as to where Sam and Luke are. What do they do next?Launch a rescue mission, of course, that leads them to an academy for gifted children owned by Dr Ravenel Raven, an Aquaterran computing genius. Using a &lsquo,jumping machine&rsquo, he stole from mysterious aliens, Dr Raven plans to visit parallel universes in search of a cure for his sister&rsquo,s incurable illness. But first he needs to get the machine working properly &ndash, at any cost.Kitty, Toby, and Lizzie learn that in the first experiments humans have indeed been &lsquo,jumped&rsquo, to Aquaterra but are having memory problems. And what&rsquo,s worse, in an attempt to repair their memories, they&rsquo,ll soon be jumped to Earth and back, which in fact may well scramble their memories beyond repair.The countdown to save Sam and Luke begins &ndash, but in a hi-tech alien world where real and virtual are sometimes impossible to distinguish, with armed sentinels chasing them, and with the jumping machine to find, will they be in time?A fast-paced and thrilling sci-fi adventure for middle-grade readers.