Breakdown

by Katherine Applegate

Book Overview

The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action! As... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590881957
• ISBN13: 9780590881951
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

Yago gets some

OK,here's the deal;after the events in book 5 Yago finds himself hooked up to Mother,the supercomputer that runs the ship the Remnants have tried to inhabit.Mother reads Yago's memories and creates a computer-generated Washington D.C.Yago then finds himself leading a battalion of computer-generated soldiers against a battalion of Blue Meanies.My favorite scene is where a Blue Meanie "kills" Yago.Fortunately it turns out to be a projection of Yago,made to simulate his death.Altogether Yago played a big part in this chapter of the Remnants' saga.

The Greatest Book of All Time

The Remnants are a group of survivors that escaped from the asteroid that wiped out earth and have been floating in space for 500 years in hibernation. Then they landed on a ship and are now trapped on that ship controlled by a super computer called Mother. They are now going to challenge Mother. The other people that have tried to fight and take over have failed and have now gone crazy. There only hope now is a boy named Billy that has some how been able to create a bond with mother. They also learn through him that Mother is lonely and about the Shipwrights. They have also learned that Mother can create new environments and even new worlds. She can even create a computer-generated earth. But will they survive long enough for Billy to take over? I thought that this is a great book. This is one of the best-written books that I have ever read. I would suggest reading the others and this one if you?re a Sci-fi fan.

Take my advise and read this fab book!!!!

As you have probably guessed from the title of my review i like this book although it was somewhat confusing at the start. BUT, don't let that put you off reading the book. It seems that Yogo is getting more anxious to run the small group of Remnants that survived the Mayflowers journey through the depths of space. Tamara Hoyle and her freaky baby are beggining to scare the group. Billy just getts stranger as the book progresses. He seems to be able to tap into peoples minds and sense what their feeling. This may come in useful later on. It may even save their lives.In the book 2 more remnants appear.Mother makes a deal with Yago. He launches an attack on another alier race. Read the book to find out more. It may not be the most exciting of the books so far but it makes the next one look great in a way only K.A. Applegate can achieve. Its a shame that it will take a while for the next few to arrive on our shelves but until then we can keep our imaginations running like mad.

The Remnants are being stalked by a secret enemy...

The strange connection that Mother has to Billy is keeping the Remnants alive, but Billy can't bargain with the powerful machine forever. A decision has to be made -- should she be trusted, or should she be left alone, which will possibly create more dangers for the group? As Billy tries to understand the torment raging inside Mother's mind -- if it has one -- it seems as if there are Remnants who want to destroy not only Billy, but all the other Remnants as well. These mysterious people, living in secrecy but obviously stronger than Jobs and the others, have a dangerous motive and will do anything to stop the other Remnants. But the most hideous intention of all lies in a mind that the Remnants would have never before imagined. Remnants #6: Breakdown is a highly imaginative addition to the series, like the fifth book, and will leave the reader in shock for the seventh book, Isolation. It's fast-paced and exciting, once again restoring the Remnants series to the suspense it had from the first book.

Hints at things to come

This isn't the best Remnants book, but it set up things that are certain to be more interesting. Mother starts messing around in Yago's head, which leads to all sorts of trouble. We learn more about Yago, Mother, and the Blue Meanies. Two more survivoring Remnants are recovered, Jessica "Noyze" Polk and Dr. Angelique Cohen. I hope they're developed more in the future. Another character who I will not reveal bites the big one (this series certainly has a high mortality rate). By the time the book ends, some things have ended and others have started. Book #7 should be VERY interesting....