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Harrison Force

Published Date: 24 Mar 2020

Deaf child in school uniform with book coverLauren with her designed book cover

Harrison Force is a teenager who works as a lifeguard at the local water park. It was not open for the summer yet so he was enjoying having a shot on all the slides by himself. His favourite thing was to put on his Go Pro and make videos of the slides to upload to YouTube. "This is going to look awesome once I upload it!"

Harrison is deaf and wears a BAHA hearing aid. He can't use it when he is on the slides as it can't get wet. When his friends visit the water park, they help him and sometimes use sign language. Harrison fist pumps them because this makes him happy!

There is an android called Alex who helps out at the water park. She is fully waterproof and can communicate with sign and speech. One day she is waiting at the bottom of one of the slides when people suddenly grab her! "Help me! They’re trying to take me away, Harrison!" A group of scientists and internet hackers want Alex to help them to turn all humans into robots like her! "They’ll never find you, robot!" shouts the evil scientist. "You’re going to help us change the world!"

Harrison Force sees what is happening to Alex. Alex is shouting something to him but he can't hear her as he doesn't have his BAHA on. But Harrison notices while rushing to get away one of the scientists has left a shoe behind. This might give Harrison a clue as to where they have taken Alex. Harrison signs to Alex: "I’ll find you, I promise!"

Harrison Force puts on his BAHA and gathers his friends to help him. Dan and Marcus work at the water park too and want to help. Harrison’s four dogs, who live at the water park, tried to catch the kidnappers but only found the shoe. They can help by sniffing the shoe and tracking the scent of the kidnappers, hopefully leading them to Alex. "We’ve got to get Alex back, she needs us!" says Harrison. 

Harrison and his friends go to Dan's house to plan the rescue mission. They will get the dogs to sniff the shoe and get them to follow the scent. Harrison teaches the others a few signs they can use so they that can communicate during the rescue silently so the scientists don't realise they have been found.

On their way, the group come across a pink and green flying dinosaur, there is a group of them who live in a village of stick houses just outside the water park. They spend their time helping the local people. The dinosaur want to help them so Harrison jumps on one of their backs and flies above the dogs who are running along following the trail. "Thank you, you’re making this rescue mission much easier!" says Marcus.

Eventually the dogs stop outside a large science laboratory. It is locked from the inside, the dinosaur suggest they use a wrecking ball to smash their way in but Harrison Force says no. "We have to be more careful, we don’t want them to know that we’re here," explains Harrison. Alex is being held captive inside the laboratory. Her antenna activates and it can communicate with Harrison's BAHA when it is close to her. It silently sends instructions to Harrison's BAHA to help him rescue her.

Harrison uses sign language to let the others know where Alex is. "Follow the long corridor, turn left at the end, go through the second door on the right." The group run in to the laboratory's hallway. The scientists and hackers jump out ready to fight them. They try to use tasers to stop them but the dinosaurs are too strong for them and knock them all to the ground. The scientists and hackers are defeated, they run away scared. The group follow Alex’s instructions and run into the room in front of them to find her and a woman. She turns out to be the boss of the scientists and hackers and threatens to use her powerful computer to launch all of them into space. "Stand back everyone, or I’ll launch you all into space!"

Now Harrison signs to the dinosaur to use their wrecking ball to destroy the computer and stop her evil plan! Outside the police and FBI arrive, they have caught the scientists and hackers and are here to get the boss and take her to jail. They are going away for a long time!

A few days later, it is the grand opening of the water park. It is extra special as Harrison and Alex are getting married and live happily ever after.

Lauren

Lauren (12) is moderately deaf and from Scotland. She entered our book competition last year and came in the top 10! Lauren said: "Entering the competition was really good and very exciting!"