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When fun fades, they invent a competitive challenge to bring the strangest items to the network within twenty-four hours. As the game escalates, Ben disappears and the police investigate, while the remaining friends realize Ben is trapped inside a computer, forcing them to recount the events from the beginning and confront the consequences.","A Game of Madness  \nAuthor: Michelle Hanna  \nIllustrator: Sara Wafeeq English  \nA Game of Madness  \nWritten by Michelle Hanna.  \nImages by Sara Wafeeq. © Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC, 2018. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.  \nEnglish  \nUnited States  \nCopyright © Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC, 2018  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThe original work of this book was made possible through the generous support of the All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) Partners (the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Vision, and the Australian Government) . It was prepared by Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC and does not necessarily reflect the views of the ACR GCD Partners. Any adaptation or translation of this work should not be considered an official ACR GCD translation and ACR GCD shall not be liable for any content or error in this translation.  \nWe decided to play this crazy game on one of the boring summer evenings. We sat together, Ben, Dan, Richard and I, making the rules of the game that unfortunately, caused us all this sorrow that we can’t overcome now.  \nYesterday, the police were in Ben’s house. They investigated the fingerprints on the doors, windows, cups, plates and tables. They searched everywhere. They opened Ben’s cupboard, searching for any evidence to help find him. They took his notebooks to read, for they might give them some clues of where he is. His mother and father were as worried as ever. They sent for us, his close friends, to go to the police station to testify with whatever information we have. My father is coming with me when he arrives. I am only thirteen. All what I hope for right now is that Ben didn’t write anything in his notebook about the game we played and played until he was about to win.  \nNo one knows where Ben disappeared. No one except Dan, Richard and I. Ben is trapped in the computer. If his dad turns the computer on he’ll see him in the screen.  \nI guess I’ll have to tell the story from the beginning.  \nIt was the beginning of summer. We finally finished our exams and started planning our holidays. We put our school textbooks in the cupboards and we were finally allowed to do anything we want without any obligations. During the summer vacation, there are people who spend their time watching movies, and some spend their time playing football, while others collect stamps and put them in albums. My friends and I are different, we spend the day in front of the computer. Ben, especially Ben, was highly talented in using the computer. He was actually an expert. Whoever has problems while using the computer would usually come to Ben. During this summer, we decided to do something different. We decided we won’t simply use the computer playing“Grand Theft Auto” and “Need for Speed” or “Chicken Feathers. Instead, we decided to make a common network.  \nAn especially easy task given that we all live in the same building. Ben took care of this, since he’s the most experienced in using computers.  \nHe bought some cables that go out from his window to each oneof us. Each cable has a rectangular edge that connects to a place on the new card. Then he installed a network program on the computers and that’s how we got an internal network between our computers. Now, each one of us can view all the programs and files on the other computers, too. 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