Reject Rebound , livre ebook

129

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English

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2018

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Gina Kammer

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Date de parution

01 novembre 2018

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EAN13

9781474753838

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Syah Walker wants to show the school counsellor at Emdaria NorthSecondary School that she can handle more difficult counselling cases. However, Syah gets a harder case than she expects in Year 8 pupil Nali. Nali takes rejection hard after being dropped from her beloved magnoball team. Losing the sport, and her best friend, is like losing part of herself. When Syah enters Nali's mindscape, she finds it flooded with Nali's feelings of betrayal and grief, as well as monstrous mental constructs that pursue the girls without mercy. As they battle the monsters together, Syah realizes that Nali's athletic skills might translate to a new sporting interest, and a new sense of her true self. Back in the physical world, Nali discovers new meaning by joining the martial arts club. It isn't exactly magnoball, but the new sport helps her learn to move on, make new friends and maybe reconnect with some old friends as well. This exciting eBook adventure will capture readers' imaginations and keep them turning the pages to follow Syah's latest jouney inside the mind.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

01 novembre 2018

EAN13

9781474753838

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

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RE JECT REBOUND

BY GINA KAMMER

COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID DEMARET

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRIS CHALIK

PROLOGUE THE DREAM

Syah had the same dream again. It began as it always did. After finishing her personality skills test on the last day of seventh grade, she watched the screen of her test pad for the results. Syah crossed her fingers, hoping she would get the student helper role she wanted most for the 2310 school year. More than anything, she wanted to be the student artist and make fun designs for the school during her eighthgrade year. But Syah’s test pad f lashed a different student helper title on the screen . . . Syah Walker, Student Counsellor. Syah stared at it in shock. Student counsellors had the hardest job of all. They were the Mind Drifters, as the strange peer counsellors were sometimes called.

The dream then zoomed forward. The school counsellor, Ms Moller, was marching Syah down the corridor. The school year had just begun, and all the student helpers were training for their new roles. “I have so much to teach you,” Ms Moller said, waving open the door panels to the counsellor’s office. “But we don’t have much time. There’s a boy who needs our help. However, it’s hard for him to trust anyone. We hope you can help him understand that we’re his friends.” Ms Moller f lashed her key card at a panel by another door and it slid open. As they walked into the room’s bright light, Ms Moller put on a white lab coat and moved towards a shiny metal machine in the middle of the room. Red, green and blue buttons f lashed and beeped on it. The machine was hooked up between two narrow tables with thin cushions. Syah knew they were the beds that the student counsellor and the student needing help would lie down on. The beds didn’t look very comfortable to Syah. “This is the school’s MindLink lab,” Ms Moller explained. “It’s where we’ll do most of our work.” She walked to the machine and Syah followed. “This is the

machine that allows us to link minds with our patients. Have you ever had a counselling session?” Syah silently shook her head. She knew many kids went to the counsellor for all sorts of reasons. But she had never been in the counsellor’s office or the lab. “That’s all right,” Ms Moller smiled. “According to your test, you’ll pick it all up very quickly.” Ms Moller picked up the white wires that were plugged into the MindLink machine. They had clear, round, rubbery pads on the ends. They looked a bit like the suction cups that would stick to windows. “First, we place these on your temples.” Ms Moller said, turning to Syah. But then she stopped and laughed at Syah’s worried expression. “Don’t worry, they don’t hurt at all! They just link you and your patient to the machine. It’s like dreaming, but we call itdrifting. You drift from this reality into the other person’smindscape.” At that moment, Syah’s dream went fuzzy. It jumped ahead again to a boy being brought into the MindLink lab. He was Syah’s first assignment. Ms Moller got them to lie down on the tables. As she placed the cold round pads on Syah’s temples, Syah peeked over at the boy. His name was Joden Ferro.

He looked terrified as Ms Moller calmly hooked him up with the wires too. Joden had stopped coming to school and wouldn’t talk to anyone. Syah had no idea how she could help him. Even after everything Ms Moller had taught her, Syah didn’t know what to do for this boy. “It’s all right,” Ms Moller told him. “This is Syah’s first time with the MindLink machine too. If anything goes wrong, Syah will use a passphrase to signal me. This red button will f lash, and I’ll turn the machine off.” Joden saw Syah watching him and looked away quickly. Syah swallowed hard and tried to relax. “Okay, we’re all set,” Ms Moller said. “Ready to link in three . . . two . . . one . . .” Then she hit a button on the machine. Suddenly Syah felt dizzy. It was like she was falling down and falling asleep at the same time, but she couldn’t pull herself out of it. Syah opened her eyes and gasped. She sat up straight and saw she was still in her bedroom at home. The dream was over. Syah took a deep breath and looked out of her wide, oval window. The sun peeked over the city’s tall spires and buildings. It was almost time for another day of school and working in the MindLink lab.

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