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    The Great Googlini
    The Great Googlini
    The Great Googlini
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    The Great Googlini

    By Sara Cassidy and Charlene Chua

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    Filip, the ten-year-old son of Croatian immigrants, lives in a boring suburb of the big city, where he passes his time either at school or in his cozy kitchen, googling everything from dinosaurs to the Hubble Space Telescope. When his favorite uncle gets sick, Filip turns to Google for answers. Instead he receives a visit from the Great Googlini, a tiny woman in Converse sneakers who swirls out of the computer vents. She's not really a genie, she explains: "I'm more of an archivist." Her visit is a little bit of magic that lets Filip see the magic all around him. Ultimately about the things we can know and the things we can't, this is a smart, touching, funny chapter book about growing up, braving tough times and looking for answers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781459817050
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    Sara Cassidy

    Sara Cassidy is a writer and editor. Her 17 children’s books have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award (Nevers), the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (Nevers, Genius Jolene), the Bolen Books Children's Book Prize (Skylark, Nevers), the Silver Birch Express Award (A Boy Named Queen, Genius Jolene), the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award and five titles for the Chocolate Lily Award. Sara also writes nonfiction and poetry for adults and works in communications for the BC Ministry of Health. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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      The Great Googlini - Sara Cassidy

      One

      I am coming to the end of my tenth orbit around the sun, I tell Ivan.

      You’ve traveled nearly nine billion four hundred million kilometers, Ivan says.

      Ivan is super smart. And skinny, like stretched toffee. Me, I’m toffee before it got stretched—short and wide. Ivan and I have been best friends since kindergarten.

      How can traveling through space make me older? I mean, I can’t even feel it.

      If you could, you’d have no skin, Ivan says. Atmosphere burn. A lot worse than carpet burn.

      We’re in front of my mom’s old computer, googling salt for a school project. We’ve watched cars race across the huge salt flats of Utah—they look like fields of snow—and have learned that Canadians put more salt on icy highways than they do on food.

      Mrs. Zupan hands us steaming bowls of goulash through the window. Here, boys.

      Ivan takes a bite. Pass the sodium chloride.

      I hand him the saltshaker.

      We stare at the screen again. The cursor flashes in the search bar, as if Google is tapping its toe: Throw something at me. Anything.

      Okay, Google, I say. The microphone throbs for input. Google!

      Google churns and spits out the top results for Google.

      It has found itself.

      Ha, Ivan says. My turn. Okay, Google…

      But before he can speak, I sneeze.

      Ah-choo!

      Google hears pet chip.

      So, as Ivan and I gobble our goulash, we learn about microchips the size of a grain of rice that you can get injected under your pet’s skin. The chip has a code, so if the animal gets lost, the chip company can figure out where it is. Dogs, cats, horses, snakes—even rare fish get microchip implants.

      Fish and chips! I say.

      How could a fish get lost? Ivan asks.

      Ivan is smart about smart things but not about normal things.

      They get stolen, not lost. Some koi are worth more than a car.

      Just then Ivan’s father’s car rattles into the parking lot down below.

      "Definitely more than that car," I add.

      Ivan’s car is held together with bungee cords. Ivan’s dad honks. Ivan grabs his backpack. Thank Mrs. Zupan for the galoshes. And don’t forget to invite me to your orbit-completion celebration.

      I snort. Who else would I invite to my birthday party?

      I spend another hour at the computer. I get sucked in. The screen is basically a window showing the whole world. The windows of our apartment only show the buildings next door.

      Our apartment building is like a brown shoe box. It’s squeezed between other brown shoe boxes on Third Street East. The town’s name is Bording. It’s a clump of low buildings stuck to the edge of the big city. Like a growth.

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