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Title:                  Little Brother
Author:                 Cory Doctorow
Read By:                Kirby Heyborne
Copyright:              2008
Audiobook Copyright:    2008
Genre:                  Juv
Publisher:              Listening Library
Abridged:               No

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Media:                  DL
Number:                 10

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Book Description

Recommended for ages 13 and up

From Booklist
*Starred Review* Seventeen-year-old techno-geek “w1n5t0n” (aka Marcus)
bypasses the school’s gait-recognition system by placing pebbles in
his shoes, chats secretly with friends on his IMParanoid messaging program,
and routinely evades school security with his laptop, cell, WifFnder,
and ingenuity. While skipping school, Markus is caught near the site
of a terrorist attack on San Francisco and held by the Department of
Homeland Security for six days of intensive interrogation. After his
release, he vows to use his skills to fight back against an increasingly
frightening system of surveillance. Set in the near future, Doctorow’s
novel blurs the lines between current and potential technologies, and
readers will delight in the details of how Markus attempts to stage
a techno-revolution. Obvious parallels to Orwellian warnings and post-9/11
policies, such as the Patriot Act, will provide opportunity for classroom
discussion and raise questions about our enthusiasm for technology,
who monitors our school library collections, and how we contribute to
our own lack of privacy. An extensive Web and print bibliography will
build knowledge and make adults nervous. Buy multiple copies; this book
will be h4wt (that’s “hot,” for the nonhackers).  Cindy Dobrez

Book Description
Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures
he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart,
fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble
outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.-

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves
caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco.
In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended
by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret
prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.

When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has
become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential
terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves
him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

About the Author
Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing and the former European director
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make, Information
Week, the Guardian online, and Locus. He has won the Locus Award three
times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell
Award, and was named one of the Web’s twenty-five influencers by Forbes
magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes
you’ll use technology to change the world.