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Little brother / Cory Doctorow.

by Doctorow, Cory.

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Tor Teen, 2008.

United States. Dept. of Homeland Security -- Fiction.

Hackers -- Fiction.

Terrorism -- Fiction.

Civil rights -- Fiction.

Counterculture -- Fiction.

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.

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9780765323118 (pbk.)

9780765319852 (hc.)

0765319853 (hc.)

382 p. ; 21 cm.

"A Tom Doherty Associates Book".

In the nearly-here future, several teenagers both use and dodge technology, trying to escape the grip of government hyper-surveillance following a terrorist attack." -- Youth Services Team, HPL.

"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." --Jacket.

Grade 10 up. SLJ.

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