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The year is 3020. Pip @256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored \u2013 she goes to virtual school using her G-Glasses, and she can\u2019t even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one day, Pip falls through a glowing green ring in her parents\u2019 lab and emerges from a toilet in the year 2019! There she meets boyinventor Rahul \u2013 who\u2019s also lonely and bored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely. But they have a whole load of new problems to deal with, like how to hide Pip\u2019s talking animals from Rahul\u2019s parents, and finding a way back to the future. Plus \u2013 just maybe \u2013 saving the world\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEET THE HEROES<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Rahul<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Genius Rahul Agarwal has been creating incredible inventions his whole life \u2013 like the Taylor Turbochaser he made for his friend Amy. But since Amy left for Scotland, Rahul\u2019s been finding it hard to come up with new inventions\u2026 until the futuristic Pip appearsCan the new pals team up and find a way to send Pip back to the future\u2026 and save the planet?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pip<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pip lives in 3020, where it\u2019s too dangerous to go outside, so she spends all her time in her HouseUnit, hanging out with her talking cat Squeezy-Paws and parrot Dag, and visiting virtual school. But then she gets sent back in time to 2019, where she meets boy genius inventor Rahul, and her adventures really begin\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out these other brilliant books from author David Baddiel!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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For more exciting adventures, head to harpercollinschildrensbooks.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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