![]() The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak.But what starts as a game to win Mary’s affection leaves Billy with a gut-wrenching choice: deceive the girl who may well be his first love or break a promise to his best friends. She’s a computer loving, expert coder, already strides ahead of Billy in ability, with a wry sense of humor and a hidden, big heart. But Mary isn’t your average teenage girl. It becomes Billy’s mission to befriend her and get the information by any means necessary. ![]() Failed attempt after failed attempt leads them to a genius master plan-they’ll swipe the security code to Zelinsky’s convenience store by seducing the owner’s daughter, Mary Zelinsky. ![]() The heist will be fraught with peril: a locked building, intrepid police officers, rusty fire escapes, leaps across rooftops, electronic alarm systems, and a hyperactive Shih Tzu named Arnold Schwarzenegger. For three teenage boys-Billy, Alf, and Clark-who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure and impossible to attain. ![]() The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine…The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune. A dazzling debut novel-at once a charming romance and a moving coming-of-age story-about what happens when a fourteen-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy but then discovers she is his computer-loving soulmate.īilly Marvin’s first love was a computer. ![]()
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