Brain Slaves

For sixteen-year-old Nelly Kidd, school doesn't mean teachers or homework or studying. Instead, like all students in Bridgetown, she and her classmates are plugged directly into the Net and lessons are downloaded into their brains. Sounds easy, but there's one catch - the lessons are painful and dangerous. Plus, there's always the chance you might get fried - that a lesson will scramble your brain or put you in a coma or even kill you. Nelly and her friends have no choice but suffer through...