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ABOUT THE BOOK
After he witnesses a fiery car crash kill both his parents, Matthew “Matty” Weber is sent to live with his Grandma Debbie. Four years later, now sixteen, Matty swears to stop hiding behind his introverted behavior and forces himself to become socially and emotionally normal. He has a rough start when he mistakenly sits down at the lunch table of the high school’s elite.
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A school trip to Utah to dig for dinosaur bones may instead unearth a sinister plan in DiBarone’s YA sequel. Californian Matty Weber and his friends are all set for a “dig seminar” at Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument near Vernal, Uta
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This debut YA novel finds a withdrawn teenage nerd mingling with the in-crowd and potential cyberterrorists. Young Matty Weber struggles with PTSD after watching his parents die in a car fire. He moves in with his grandmother in Southern California and settles into his socially awkward life.
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As Matty and his best friend, Gabriel Mason, struggle with this dilemma, their social status gets an unexpected boost. While Matty has long had trust issues, Gabriel willingly loses himself in the popular set.
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When your powers fade and the girl you love vanishes, what do you hold onto? Seventeen-year-old Matty Weber is used to being the smartest kid in the room-but this year, the room has changed. His best friend, Gabriel, is drifting away, his grandmother's house is overrun by unwelcome guests, and the prestigious XPAC internship he's worked toward slips through his fingers. Worst of all, Samantha Carter-the girl who once kissed him in midair-has vanished. When an Amber Alert is quietly issued and ignored by most, Matty knows nothing in Scotsbourgh ever disappears quietly. Meanwhile, Samantha's cousin, Tippi, is everything Matty didn't see coming: a polyglot, singer, gymnast, and his new academic equal-or rival. As strange signals echo from Mars, memories glitch, and shadowy figures monitor students from behind planetarium walls, Matty begins to question what's real, what's programmed, and who he can trust. From the starry skies above Santa Barbara to secrets shared aboard a long train ride, Tipping Point explores what happens when the ground beneath a teenager shifts-and nothing can be taken for granted.
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"Botheration: Part Three: Epiphany is an inventive YA sci-fi thriller that combines emotional introspection, eerie suspense, and bold speculative ideas. Vito DiBarone gives readers a protagonist in Matty Weber who is intellectually gifted yet deeply human, and that contrast powers a story filled with mystery, shifting reality, and unsettling technological menace. With its empty-school mystery, haunting AI presence, and widening sense of global catastrophe, Epiphany is a memorable and ambitious installment that will appeal to readers who enjoy intelligent, emotionally driven speculative fiction."
Vito DiBarone
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