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Chapter 15: Hyperwhosis (Donovan Curtis)

NO COINS, PLEASE and I WANT TO GO HOME have already come up as comparisons for HYPERGIFTED’s Kormaniacs Book Club, so let’s add to the tally:

> Rudy Miller would be so frustrated if both teams chased an out-of-bounds ball into the woods.
> Raina is channeling Dennis Leaver in a surprising degree of unconcern about a missing camper, reasoning that “He’ll be back.”

This isn’t a story observation, but as someone who loves the physical, tactile presence of books and nerds out over the printing process: Anyone else reading the hardcover, help me check something. Look at the eighth line down page 137. Is the ending letter “e” in the word “time” incomplete? I’m trying to figure out whether that’s broken type or just type dropout in my copy. (I like to watch subsequent printings to see if the publisher quietly fixes these things. Nothing says “thrilling weekend” like monitoring typographical defects.)

@Josh: Nice addition of SCHOOLED as a tie-in with the Judy Blume quote. And now I’m envisioning a “We Didn’t Start the Fire”-style song that introduces kids to famous scientists as curated by GRK.