Author(s): Joy Cowley

New Zealand titles - children

People all over Claircomb are succumbing to a strange illness, thought to be a deadly new virus. But this is no virus - it is a life form so advanced that its intelligence makes a computer look like counting beads. It knows the prophecy, too, and IT is hunting down the Bright Star - to destroy her forever. Can Starbright Conner, the town's tomboy and giggly dare-devil, be the chosen one who will save her best friend Mark - and her beloved family?