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."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2004
"ROTFL. (Fiction. YA)"
Told entirely in instant messages, this modern epistolary tale prompts both tears and LOL (laughing out loud).
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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.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2007
"His emotional maturity realistically lagging behind his intellectual development, Cadel rides right up there with Artemis Fowl as a sympathetic anti-villain. (Fiction. 12-15)"
Carried along by much peeling back of layers of deception and repeated thickenings of plot, this hefty but engrossingly complex tale features a young super-brain being groomed for world domination.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 5, 2010
"Includes a discussion guide and resources on suicide and bullying. (Fiction. YA)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 28, 2010
"Geektastic. (Science fiction. 12 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for preteens and teens, a surefire hit. (Thriller. 12-16)"
Teenage hackers Noa and Peter band together for vengeance and discover an inconceivable conspiracy.
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