by Cory Doctorow
Marcus aka W1n5ton is a 17 year old knows how to beat the sysytem. Using his computer hacking skills he and his friends outwit the school surveillance and bunk, only to find that they are in the wrong place at the wrong time when a bomb goes off. Marcus is arrested and his city becomes a police state ruled by a corrupt Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Soon Marcus finds that he is left with no option but to take down the DHS himself.
The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
by Patrick Ness
"The first thing you find out when your dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say." The first sentence of this novel sets the scene for a thrilling story. It is set in a world where, as a result of a virus, all the men in Prentisstown can hear each others' thoughts all the time. This results in a continuous background jabber called The Noise. Todd Hewitt, the hero, not only hears the thoughts of men but also his dog. One day while he and his dog are in the marshes at the edge of Prentisstown Todd discovers some silence - the source of that silence is a girl. There are no girls in Prentisstown, and finding her means that Todd has to escape. The book - which is the first part of a trilogy - is mostly the story of their flight from pursuers that can not only track Todd but can hear his thoughts too.
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