Streams of Babel

Whatever you do, dont drink the water. When Cora Holmans mother dies, she assumes the inevitable: that her mother overdosed on the painkillers shed been taking for years. So shes shocked to learn that her mother and a neighbor both died of a brain aneurysm the same night. When Cora and other neighborhood teens become ill with a mysterious flu, and governmenttype strangers arrive in her small town, they all fear the unthinkablea terrorist attack. Meanwhile, a world away in Pakistan, a sixteenyearold computer genius named Shahzad is working as a virtual spy. Hes alarmed to see an influx of chatter about a substance called Red Vinegar that will, as he reads, lead to many deaths in Colony One. Can Shahzad sift through the babble of the chat room, find the location of the attack, and warn the victims in time? And if so, at what cost to him? A Printz Honor Awardwinner and twotime Edgar Allan Poe Award finalist, Carol PlumUcci explores disturbing new terrain in thisriveting novel that examines the heroes and victimsinvolved ina terrifying act of bioterrorism.