{"product_id":"chase-9780143198758","title":"Chase","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Incredible Journey meets Gordon Kormans On the Run in this exciting middle-grade thriller.  Chipper is a very special dog. Hes part of a multi-million dollar experiment at a secret organization known only as The Institute. The Institute has been experimenting with dogs  melding them with state-of-the-art computer technology. But theres a problem with Chipper. His natural dog instincts often overrule his computer side. No matter what hes doing  if he sees a squirrel or a mouse  hell drop everything to chase it. So The Institute has decided its time to pull the plug on Chipper. Chipper manages a daring escape with a destination in mind  but a team from the Institute  led by the cold-hearted Daggert  is hot on his heels.  Twelve-year-old Jeff Conroy lives with his aunt and helps run her business  a lakeside cabin-rental operation that caters to fishermen. Jeff desperately misses his parents  who were killed in a plane crash a year earlier. But at least hes made one friend: Emily  whose ex-cop father owns a similar business down the lake. And Emily  a computer whiz  has the coolest fort ever: a trackless  abandoned train station in the middle of the forest.  After eluding his would-be captors  Chipper boards a bus and ends up in the country  only to be hit by a truck that Jeff is driving (underage). Jeff takes Chipper to the train station to nurse him back to health  and its here that he and Emily discover a computer port in Chippers collar  and once Emily hooks her laptop to it  she and Jeff discovers that Chippers arrival is not random. He has been looking for Jeff -- and now so is Daggert ...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647845294133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0143198750","price":45.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780143198758.jpg?v=1781697924","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chase-9780143198758","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}