Getting It Is a fantasy involving a handful of high-school students. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Baines (Class of 2009) reaches deep within to find his strengths, tutored by an entity that lives in a book – the disembodied sage, "It."
Warning: delving into details could ruin the story if you haven't read it yet.
The dialogue between Bobby and his mentor highlights differences between clouded and hip, switching sides according to topic.
Bobby and his high school friends find their way to court, having been accused of inserting a malicious computer program, a Trojan Horse, to a CIA mainframe and in the process uncovering a secret plot to kidnap a Nobel laureate candidate.
"It" figures prominently in their struggle against the CIA’s ill-conceived scheme.
“Getting It” is a Trojan Horse itself.
Warriors hide inside the Trojan Horse that every book is. Like “It,” they wait for the right moment to come out into one’s life, an act that requires much patience. This book’s outer shell is a simple story of good versus bad guys, concealing content that was written as an obligation to summarize important lessons.
