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Teens Who Hack, Surf, and Chat


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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 28, 2010

"Geektastic. (Science fiction. 12 & up)"
A cyber-thriller that reads like a video game. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2008

"Plum-Ucci takes the incredible and makes it all too believable. (Fiction. YA)"
It's February, 2002, in Trinity Falls, N.J., a sleepy little suburban town south of New York City. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2008

"Terrifying glimpse of the future--or the present. (Fiction. 13+)"
In this unapologetically didactic tribute to 1984, Marcus--known online as w1n5t0n (pronounced "Winston")--takes on the Department of Homeland Security. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 1, 2007

"Great for action fans. (Fiction. YA)"
Another action thriller from Britain follows a young computer hacker who falls prey to the American rendition scheme and must escape from a top-security prison camp located in a frozen Arctic wasteland. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2007

"However, the fast-paced plot and lurking threat of violence will capture readers' attention, and older readers will find this a satisfying conclusion of the Hoopster trilogy. (Fiction. YA)"
When his sister is shot and killed in a gangland drive-by shooting, Teddy plots revenge, and the tension of this gritty and violent story lies in just how he will do it. Read full book review >
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2002

"The crystalline realization of this wildly dystopic future carries in it obvious and enormous implications for today's readers--satire at its finest. (Fiction. YA)"
"I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before than, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe." Read full book review >