Anderson's Feed, Janet Tashjian's The Gospel According to Larry, and Scott Westerfeld's So Yesterday.” - Horn Book(starred review) Little Brother should easily find favor with fans of M. “Doctorow pays homage to with an impassioned, polemical consideration of the War on Terror that dovetails with themes of teenage angst, rebellion, and paranoia. “A believable and frightening tale of a near-future San Francisco… Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions…within a tautly crafted fictional framework.” He's also terrific at finding the human aura shimmering around technology." - The Los Angeles Times “Generally awesome in the more vernacular sense: It's pretty freaking cool. It's hard to imagine any other author taking on youth and technology with such passion, intelligence, and understanding.”- Booklist, starred review on For The Win But the powers-that-be havent entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change peoples minds…. Parliament is in power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a stroke. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire households access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal. From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny. Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net.
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