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YA
After a devastating car crash, Kwan ends up paralyzed and is sent away to live with his grandmother. While interning at a stem cell research facility, he injects himself with shark cells and begins to transform into a muscular human-shark hybrid. Alten mixes genetics jargon with crackling action sequences for an entertaining (if over-the-top) mixture of science and fantasy.
40 pp.
| Taylor
| June, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-87833-997-3$$14.95
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4-6
Illustrated by
Doug Keith.
Published spring 1998. Emphasizing the values they learned as children and relied on to become successful, Seattle Mariners shortstop Rodriguez and New England Patriots quarterback Bledsoe offer advice to readers. Color photographs accompany the mixture of good advice and biographical detail, but the poorly designed books also include amateurish drawings.