Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow
I asked the high school librarian in our town what the students have been reading and this was the first on his list. I had not heard of it, but I chose it because the reviews were good. It is the story of Marcus, a smart 17-year-old computer geek who already knows how to work the system. After a terrorist attack, he and his friends are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and imprisoned for days. When they are released, he discovers that his city has become a police state and Marcus decides he must fight back. An interesting look at the surveillance world in which the author tries to depict opposing viewpoints. The book has two afterwords , one by a security technologist and one by a hacker. Also contains a bibliography for teens who are interested in learning more about intellectual freedom and information access.
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