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The Facttracker
IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU ARE A GENIUS
Is that true? Who knows! But it sounds good. So Does:
THIS BOOK IS BETTER THAN ICE CREAM,
TELEVISION AND YOUR BIRTHDAY COMBINED!
The Facttracker is full of such statements. Unfortunately, most of them are lies, which is odd,
since Traäkerfaxx is the town that produces all the world's facts.
So how can a story about a bizarre town with a weird name become
THE GREATEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN?
Dinosaurs would help. Or maybe aliens. Alien dinosaurs would be dynamite! Alas, we have none of those.
Here's what we do have: the Facttracker, who tracks all the facts in Traäkerfaxx.
The just small enough boy, who lost all his facts. And Ersatz, but the less said about him the better.
And, of course, there are lots and lots of facts and lies, such as:
THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU GOOD LOOKING
AND POPULAR!
Was that a fact or a lie? For the answer, read on and encounter adventure, peril, and even more
LARGE OVERSIZED WORDS!
What's the Buzz?
“The Facttracker,” by Jason Carter Eaton has a plot that seems to get more and more exaggerated, like a lie that starts out small and then gets larger." - Inkweaver Review
" I really think this a good book because it is really funny. The chapters have interesting names like “A Tiny Chapter That Isn’t Really a Chapter at All So Much as a Really Long Chapter Title Placed Strategically to Waste a Bit of Time In Order to Give the Facttracker and the Small Enough Boy a Moment to Compose Themselves”. The chapters themselves are even more interesting." - Ayesha Reviews
"The author is full of authorial asides to the reader and lots of playing with authorial conventions. For example, Chapter 13 has the heading crossed out, with the title, "There Will Not Be a Chapter 13 Because It Might Be Unlucky and the Facttracker Needs All the Luck He Can Get Now." - Sonder Books
"The Facttracker is laugh out loud funny, but also has much to say about the relationship between truth and falsehood, understanding and self-deception." - Provo City Library
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