Geek Girl - Book 3: Double Trouble In this addition to the Geek Girl series, Maya discovers that her wish has unexpectedly been granted and she is faced with something she had not bargained for.This leads to a whole new adventure for Maya who learns that practice really does make perfect and if she is willing to apply effort, then rewards will follow. Along with the help of her friends, Maya manages to take down some bad guys and help to make the world a better place, just like her grandpa had hoped.This is a great book for girls who enjoy funny books filled with action. It is the perfect follow-up story to the Geek Girl series.
John Zakour is a humor/sf/fantasy writer with a Master's degree in Human Behavior and slowly plugging away at his Ph.D. He has written zillions (well, thousands) of gags for syndicated comics and comedians (including: Rugrats, Grimmy, Bound and Gagged, Dennis the Menace and Joan River's old TV show.) John also writes his own syndicated comic, Working Daze for United Media. John has been the regular cartoonist for Geek.com and has sold cartoons or gags to hundreds of journals and magazines. John is also a contributor to Nickelodeon magazine writing Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron comic books. Recently he has started writing Simpsons comics for Bongo.
John’s first humorous SF mystery book, The Plutonium Blonde (DAW 2001, co-written with Larry Ganem and started of as an interactive web story for the Sci Fi channel) was named one of the top 30 SF books of 2001 by The Chronicle of Science Fiction who called it, “the funniest SF book of 2001”. His second novel, The Doomsday Brunette (DAW Feb 2004) has made the Locus best sellers list. The third book in the series, The RadioActive Redhead, also made the SF best seller list.
Besides his novels John has sold numerous short stories to anthologies and magazines. John has written the dialog and song lyrics for Frogwares Software computer game Around the World in 80 days. For something a bit different John writes skits for the Harlem Rockets basketball team.
In the past, John has written and helped develop the first year and season of the comic book and animated series: Caramel Crew, for Mobtoons. John also has written for the independent SF TV show, “Realm of the Mind”. John also helped develop an animated sf horror series, called Prime Squad for MUV Technologies in India. His romantic comedy, Skin Deep about an ordinary guy who can’t believe the hottest girl on campus is actually in love with him has won a couple of writing awards. John has also written for Ebru tv.
John use to be a database programmer / web guru / science writer for NYSAES.
When he's not writing or studying John likes to play softball, watch TV and hang out with his wife and son. He use to do judo and karate, but those have been replaced by tai chi and archery.
This rather cute series continues with more action in the lab. The computer has decided to make a duplicate of Maya and Maya faces an ethical dilemma; should she use the duplicate to take her place on the soccer team (Maya is rather terrible at playing) or not?
There's also a problem with banks being robbed by a gang which she and her friends, human and otherwise, try to bring to justice.
If this wasn't enough to deal with there's always Ivy, a major bully.
The story is very unrealistic, of course, but it's still a lot of fun. The ending I felt was sort of sad but really had to be done that way.