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Yip's dad's company is testing software that creates virtual actors. Yip downloads the program, taps a few buttons and creates Victor the "vactor." Victor is perfect until he teaches himself how to break out of cyberspace!

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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Overview

Yip's dad's company is testing software that creates virtual actors. Yip downloads the program, taps a few buttons and creates Victor the "vactor." Victor is perfect until he teaches himself how to break out of cyberspace!

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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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Gutman (The Kid Who Ran for President) taps out a smoothly diverting "What if?" tale centered on a seventh-grader who is new to town and feeling friendless. After Yip's father, a special-effects expert in the movie business, comes home with new computer software that can create a "virtual actor" (aka "vactor"), Yip decides to experiment. But the virtual pal he devises, Victor, insists on stepping out of the computer screen and into the real world. The next day, that "bunch of electrons" shows up at Yip's school and makes friends fast, thanks to his carefully calculated good looks (Yip's boy-smitten older sister had a hand in composing his physical features), his rapid-fire repertoire of one-liners (The Best of Henny Youngman is one of the books Yip has downloaded into his vactor's database) and his superhuman athletic prowess. But Yip's growing jealousy of Victor and Yip's failure to program in a conscience virtually guarantee big trouble. Gutman builds the funniest moments around Yip's likable grandfather, a retired special-effects man, who finally pulls the plug on Victor. Its breezy dialogue and quick pace give this caper the scent of a smartly written sitcom; readers will supply the laugh track. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
Children's Literature - Joyce Rice
A Vactor is a virtual person created on a computer to look and act like a real person. This is just too interesting for young Yip to ignore. Yip has a heritage of involvement with computers and special effects. His grandfather spent his life on the set of movie studios, creating stunts with special effects and props. Yip's father now does the same thing for movies, but he uses a computer instead of props. Yip's world of school and home is not very exciting compared to this. To add to the misery, Yip doesn't have many friends to share his time or his interests. When Yip's dad brings home a software program that is able to create a person, Yip chooses to make his own best friend. Life around the Harrison house gets intense when the newly created Victor the Vactor decides to become a bigger part of Yip's life than he had planned. This is a great story for boys and girls in this age group.
School Library Journal
Gr 4-8-A cyberfantasy set in California's Silicon Valley. Yip is the computer-savvy 12-year-old son of a second-generation, movie-industry special-effects man. He downloads the software being tested by his father's company, Digital Dreammaker, and simulates a "virtual actor." With help from his teenage sister Paige, Yip creates Victor, a perfect kid with great looks, super intelligence, and a sense of humor. Anxious to explore Yip's world, the "vactor" breaks out of cyberspace and reveals a serious flaw--no conscience. A shortage of memory, and Paige's desire to improve Victor's appearance, caused the omission of philosophy from his database. When Victor shows criminal tendencies, Yip is faced with a moral dilemma: Is it okay to destroy a dangerous computer file that looks, sounds, and acts like a human? Gutman has created an amusing and thoughtful novel. Unfortunately, Paige is portrayed as a boy-crazy airhead.-Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786814749
  • Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
  • Publication date: 12/8/1999
  • Pages: 128
  • Product dimensions: 5.74 (w) x 8.08 (h) x 0.59 (d)

Meet the Author

Dan Gutman
Dan Gutman

When he was a kid, Dan Gutman always did his homework. That's how he grew up to write cool books such as The Kid Who Ran for President, Honus & Me, The Million Dollar Shot, Race for the Sky, and The Edison Mystery: Qwerty Stevens, Back in Time. If you want to learn more about Dan or his books, stop by his Web site: www.dangutman.com.

But first do your homework.

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