
Desperate to figure out what’s going on, Hana and her friends find themselves spying on one of the most powerful corporations in the country-and the answers about the mystery at Start-Up could be closer to home than Hana’s willing to accept. With an ominous warning from her grandmother about being meshed, Hana begins to wonder if getting the implant early is really a good idea. A refreshing, imaginative take on a cyberpunk future, filled with wickedly cool.

Even scarier, she starts to notice that something’s not right at Start-Up-some of her friends are getting sick, and no matter what she does, her tech never seems to work right. Buy a cheap copy of Hana Hsu and the Ghost Crab Nation book by Sylvia Liu. But the competition is fierce, and when her passion for tinkering with bots gets her mixed up with dangerous junkyard rebels, she knows her future in the program is at risk.

If she can beat out half her classmates at Start-Up, a tech school for the city’s most talented twelve-year-olds, she’ll be meshed to the multiweb through a neural implant like her mom and sister.

“A refreshing, imaginative take on a cyberpunk future, filled with wickedly cool technology and unraveling intrigue!” –Xiran Jay Zhao, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Iron Widow and Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor Perfect for fans of Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, this thrilling, cinematic sci-fi novel follows Hana Hsu’s mission to save herself-and her friends-from a dangerous plot to control their minds.
