Net Bandits

I bought this book on a lark for my 9 year old daughter. She burned through it in 3 nights( a big deal for a 9yearold) and she loved it. Besides an engaing story I found my daughter had learned many internet concepts as well as emoticons. The :) and ;) symbols you see all over emails. She just shot through book 2 and asks everyday for book 3(which is currently outta stocK) :(

This book was the first Internet Detectives book I read , and now I purchased the whole series. One of the best books I ever read. A defenite winner for all internet fans!

:-(( ¬:-D:-Vi-) is the coded message that ZMASTER sends to Tamsyn, after sending TAMSYN, GET HELP.Tamsyn and Josh - with the help of Lauren, Mitch and Tom - do decode the message in time (they only have about 5 hours) and rescue Rob Zanelli. Well, Tamsyn and Josh rescue Rob because only those three live in Portsmouth. The other three live in Toronto, New York and Perth. This is the story that starts the Internet Detectives. We get to see who they are and how they met. And, the suspense is great ... the story moves ...But one little problem! How did Rob type the famous coded message :-(( ¬:-D:-Vi-) in the split second before his nasty tutor entered. You see, on my regular keyboard, to get a ¬ symbol I have to type ALT + 170. And that took me 10 minutes to figure out!. But, then maybe Rob really is a whizz kid. Good book!!

A kid named ZMaster E-Mails a girl named Tamsyn to call the police. Tamsyn doesn't even know ZMaster's name until ZMaster's friends tell her his name is Rob Zanelli. She E-Mails ZMaster's friends and Lauren sends her a map of their neighborhood so that she can get to Rob Zanelli's house. She doesn't call the police. She and her friend Josh goes to their house. They find out that this guy wants a computer game disk. To find out what happens read the book.

Tamsyn Smith recieves a strange message from a mystery on-line kid named ZMaster. He sends Tamsyn a message telling her to call the Portsmouth Police. The reason ZMaster e-mailed Tamsyn is because she is in the same town as he is. Tamsyn and her friend Josh Allen finally find out who ZMaster really is. He is a kid named Rob Zanelli. When they find out who Zmaster is, they decide to help him. Even though she doesn't call the police, she does find out who is threatening Rob and helps him keep a diskette that's worth over 3,000 dollers safe.