Little Brother

While his political bias is obvious, he does try to depict opposing viewpoints fairly. Politics aside, Marcus is a wonderfully developed character: hyperaware of his surroundings, trying to redress past wrongs, and rebelling against authority. . From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 10 Up—When he ditches school one Friday morning, 17-year-old Marcus is hoping to get a head start on the Harajuku Fun Madness clue. All rights reserved. Encouraging hackers from around the city, Marcus fights against the system while falling for one hacker in particular. One afterword by a noted cryptologist and another from an infamous hacker further reflect Doctorow's principles, and a bibliography has resources for teen

Mal Warwick said A stirring dystopian tale and a primer on file encryption. Welcome to dystopia. In Little Brother, the Department of Homeland Security runs amok in San Francisco after terrorist bombings take out the Bay Bridge and the cross-bay BART tunnel with the loss of more than A stirring dystopian tale and a primer on file encryption Mal Warwick Welcome to dystopia. In Little Brother, the Department of Homeland Security runs amok in San Francisco after terrorist bombings take out the Bay Bridge and the cross-bay BART tunnel with the loss of more than 4,000 lives. The city is flooded with heavily armored agents who seize anyone who looks suspicious to them. This seems to mean mostly teenagers and people of color. 15-year-old Marcus Yallow, a talented programmer and gamer, is out on a walk with his three best friends when they are all roughly apprehended by DHS agents, trussed up and. ,000 lives. The city is flooded with heavily armored agents who seize anyone who looks suspicious to them. This seems to mean mostly teenagers and people of color. 15-year-old Marcus Yallow, a talented programmer and gamer, is out on a walk with his three best friends when they are all roughly apprehended by DHS agents, trussed up and. A Must Read! book for these times Doc Bill Little Brother was on my 'Read Me' list (now at several feet and growing), but when it was banned by a Florida school (and 200 free copies refused) it immediately moved to the top of the list. It was published in 2008 but is even more topical today than it was then, especially given Edward Snowden's bean-spillage on the NSA.The premise is all too believable: a "terrorist attack" sets the stage for a plethora of Alphabet Soup Agencies (ASAs) to turn San Francisco into a statist's surveillance state utopia "for security". That this surveillan. Young Adult High Tech Novel Bought this for my kindle for my teens to read. Especially after reading in the LA Times of how some school superintendent banned it and took it off the recommended reading list for high school - then I just had to get it. Of course, I read it also. It was written a while ago, but is very pertinent to today with Big Brother everywhere. Of course, as in all young adult fiction, the kids are smarter than the adults and need to save the world - with a little help from some adults. I really enjoyed that the characters were all flawed, learned v

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 nd 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 nally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state, where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. Marcus, aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he gures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.Can one teenage hacker ght back against a government out of control? Maybe, but only if he&