Book 2 in the series They called it the Great Holophone Invasion of 2294. This is the year the sleepy fishing village of Bree gets satellite reception and a free holophone for anyone who wants one. Now that school's out and the ban on daytime holophone use has been lifted, the youth of Bree are making up for lost time. As 11-year-old Lin basks in the glory of having made all this possible, an epidemic of holophone addiction breaks out and her naysaying enemies conspire to destroy everything she's worked for. After the national paper publishes a story headlined
Holophone Mayhem: Technology Too Much for Little Town of Bree
, curious tourists flock to their pristine beaches, bringing with them their high-tech gadgets (outlawed in Bree) and stirring to a fevered pitch the civil war that has been brewing.