# Virtually Perfect

**Author:** Dan Gutman
**Grade range:** Grades 3–8
**Age range:** 8–13
**First published:** 1998
**Page count:** 123
**Genre:** Science Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780786817450`
**ISBN-10:** `0786823445`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/virtually-perfect
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When twelve-year-old Yip uses his father's new software to make a computer simulation of a boy his age, the creation breaks out of cyberspace into the real world and begins to complicate Yip's life.

## Themes

- computers
- science fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Nevada Young Readers' Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Nevada — [source: Nevada Young Readers' Award — Nevada's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-83-56-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.librarything.com/award/343.1/Nevada-Young-Readers-Award-Winner)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Nevada — [source: Nevada Young Readers' Award — Nevada's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-83-56-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.librarything.com/award/343.1/Nevada-Young-Readers-Award-Winner)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Nevada — [source: Nevada Young Readers' Award — Nevada's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-83-56-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.librarything.com/award/343.1/Nevada-Young-Readers-Award-Winner)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Nevada — [source: Nevada Young Readers' Award — Nevada's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-83-56-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.librarything.com/award/343.1/Nevada-Young-Readers-Award-Winner)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Nevada — [source: Nevada Young Readers' Award — Nevada's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-83-56-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.librarything.com/award/343.1/Nevada-Young-Readers-Award-Winner)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Nevada — [source: Nevada Young Readers' Award — Nevada's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-83-56-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.librarything.com/award/343.1/Nevada-Young-Readers-Award-Winner)

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