Technology in Children's Literature

Contributor's Form (list #201)

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• "Cyber.Kdz" series (going out of print , I think), Bruce Balan (computers, Internet)
• Malorie Blackman: Hacker
• Betsy Byars: The Computer Nut
• "Chasing the demons" in which computer games play a large part. Progress in them is used to parallel the main character's progress in accepting her disability. It's an interesting concept but, alas, not as well-written a book as it might be.
• Michael Coleman's Internet Detectives series, Macmillan Children's Books, London, 1996
• "Buddy Love Now on Video," Ilene Cooper (videography, TV)
• Coopers, Susan The Boggart
• Coville's AI Gang
• Milton Dank's Galaxy Gang and Ghost Squad books.
• "The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker," Cynthia DeFelice (historical fiction, medicine developing in the face of superstition)
• "A Bone from a Dry Sea," Peter Dickinson, archaeology
• Dickinson, Peter Eva (Delcorte, 1989,also available in paperback); the society has developed such a high level of technology that a young  girl is saved from death by transferring her neuron memory to the brain of a female chimpanzee.
• Dickinson, Peter The Weathermonger (dealing with a futuristic society where modern technology has been banned)
• Peter Dickinson's "The Weathermonger" (dealing with a futuristic society where modern technology has been banned) be relevant to your interests
• Fred D'Ignazio's Chip Mitchell books
• "Net" from Sarah Ellis'short story collection _Back of Beyond_, Groundwood, 1996
• "Invitation to the Game," Monica Hughes (computers)
• Julie Johnston's *Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me*, a Canadian YA novel in which the central character sees herself as like a computer--able to delete dangerous thoughts, for example--and, arguably, survives her difficult life because she does so.
• Garry Kilworth: Cybercats
• Lowry,Lois The Giver
• "The Lurker Files" which is on one of the publisher websites is a very interesting series for young adults dealing with technology. What makes it really fun is that it is written in hypertext with links to chatrooms and so on, the downside is that the writing is uneven and there is some commercial content(one element of the hypertext, the bookstore, actually sells books).
• "Journey, " Patricia MacLachlan, camera and photography
• Ginette Anfousse's Rosalie series (Éditions La courte échelle for the French version), where a character called Julie Morin is known for her intelligence and computer skills
• "Skymaze," Gillian Rubinstein (yes, it "rubin"), computers
• Seymour Simon's Einstein Anderson books
• Ralph Steadman: The Little Red Computer (from as early as 1969!)

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