Doctorow, Corey.
LITTLE BROTHER
New York : Tor, 2008
IL YA
ISBN 0765319853

(2 booktalks)

It was just supposed to be a harmless afternoon of skipping school.  Techno-geek Marcus bypasses the school security to escape with his friends to spend the afternoon playing games.  But they certainly couldn't have known that a terrorist attack on San Francisco would change their lives forever.  Picked up by the Department of Homeland Security, Marcus is held in an undisclosed location for 6 days and faces intense interrogation.  When he is finally released, he is warned not to tell anyone where he has been.  San Franciso is now little more than a police state and the DHS is controlling everything.  Just how much of their privacy will the population give up to feel secure?  Is there anyway that a group of teens can bring down the government?  Should they even try?

Booktalk #2

While skipping school, Markus is caught near the site of a terrorist attack on San Francisco and is intensely interrogated for six days. After his release and the disappearance of his best friend, Markus vows to use his formidable technical skills to network teenagers and fight back against the government?s increasingly frightening surveillance system.  (Florida Teen Reads nominee, 2010)