The JOIN Underground ...if you dare BOOKS ABOUT SUBCULTURES, HACKERS, AND DYSTOPIAS Feed by M. T. Anderson (Teen Ane). Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Teen Spring break for Titus and his friends Doc). Caught in the aftermath of a ma- was ruined when a crazy hacker caused jor terrorist attack, Marcus and his all their feeds to malfunction, send- friends are detained and tortured. By ing them to the hospital. Then Titus the time Marcus is released, the city met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teen- has become a police state. No one will age girl who has decided to fight the believe his story, which leaves the com- feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize puter hacker with only one option: to take down thoughts and desires. the Department of Homeland Security himself. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (SF The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Car). The brilliant Andrew “Ender” (Juvenile Fiction DuP). The last ref- Wiggin is a leader in school and a uge for the human race is running out standout in the Battle Room, where of food and power as two teens at- children play at mock battles in zero tempt to decipher an ancient parch- gravity. Though he suffers greatly from ment and find a way out. Sequels in- isolation, rivalry from his peers, pres- clude The People of Sparks, The sure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling Prophet of Yonwood, and The Dia- fear of the alien invaders, his battles include lone- mond of Darkhold liness and a fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers. Is Ender the leader Earth The House of the Scorpion by Nancy needs? Sequels include Speaker For the Dead, Farmer (Teen Far). Matteo was not Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and A War of born, he was harvested. His DNA came Gifts from El Patrón, lord of a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and what was once Mexico. He is a (Fiction Cli). In 2044 the real world is boy now, but most consider him a mon- an ugly place. Like most of humanity, ster. As Matt struggles to understand his exist- Wade escapes his grim surroundings ence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of charac- by spending his waking hours jacked ters and must escape to survive. But escape is no into a sprawling virtual utopia, look- guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked in ing for a hidden lottery ticket. With the ways he doesn’t even suspect. whole world watching, Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle piece. The only way to survive and pre- Neuromancer by William Gibson (SF serve everything he knows is to win—and that Gib). This influential work in the means facing the real world he so desperately cyberpunk genre presents the story of wants to avoid. a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the The Hunger Games by Suzanne ultimate hack. Collins (Teen Col). It’s kill or be killed on the playing field of “The Hunger Games,” the ultimate television sur- The Knife of Never Letting Go by vival show pitting teens against each Patrick Ness (Teen PB Nes). The only other. Sequels include Catching Fire boy in a town of men, Todd can hear and Mockingjay. what the men think and they hear ev- erything he thinks. One month away from becoming a man, Todd knows that the town is hiding something from him—something ents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of so awful that he is forced to flee with only his dog. the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cut- With hostile men in pursuit, the two stumble upon ting; and Lev, his parents’ tenth child whose un- a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is winding has been planned since birth as a religious she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the tithing. Sequel is UnWholly females on New World? Sequels include The Ask Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and the Answer, and Monsters of Men (Fiction Ste). In 1942, a mathematical 1984 by George Orwell (Fiction Orw). genius was assigned to help keep the In this classic novel, written in 1949, Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied two lovers attempt a forbidden relation- Intelligence had cracked the enemy’s ship amid the danger and constant sur- fabled Enigma code. Now his crypto- veillance of “Big Brother.” hacker grandson brings to light a mas- sive conspiracy related to this very mission. Will it lead to a future of personal and digital liberty or The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary will universal totalitarianism be reborn? Pearson (Teen Pea). A 17-year-old has Daemon by Daniel Suarez (Fiction just awoken from a year-long coma— Sus). A designer of computer games so she’s been told. She’s been given leaves behind a program that unravels home movies chronicling her entire the Internet’s interconnected world. life, which spark memories to surface. Can Detective Peter Sebeck stop this But are the memories really hers? And malevolent virtual enemy before it why won’t anyone in her family talk about the acci- destroys civilization? The sequel is dent? What happened to Jenna Fox? And who is Freedom she really? Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (Teen Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Teen Wes). In Tally’s world, your 16th birth- Shu). After the Second Civil War in day brings an operation that turns you America, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life from a repellant Ugly into a stunningly armies came to an agreement: Hu- attractive Pretty, and catapults you man life may not be touched from the into a high-tech paradise where your moment of conception until a child only job is having a really good time. reaches the age of 13. Between the Just before her birthday, Tally discovers that turn- ages of 13 and 18, however, a parent ing Pretty comes with a terrible price. Will she go may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through through with it? Sequels include Pretties, Spe- a process called “unwinding.” This book follows cials, and Extras three runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose par- Sioux City Public Library (712) 255-2933 x 231 • 08/13.