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BOOK TALK-BRAIN JACK

Brain Jack

By Brian Falkner

Technology is wonderful-isn’t it? Teen hacker, Sam Wilson must have a neuro headset. Neuro headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Internet at the speed of thought! However, as he becomes familiar with the new technology, he is terrified when he realizes that if he can hack into anything on the computer, he can hack into someone’s brain (and control their mind) if the mind, or brain is linked to the computer system. Could consciousness itself be hijacked? A person’s memory could be erased, or their whole brain fried like a computer hard drive. If this power got into the wrong hands, evil could control the whole world. When Sam is hired to work in the nation’s cyberdefense network he has to keep this from happening, but has evil already taken control of the brains of those he works for and with? What will Sam have to do to make things right and give the country or the whole world back their own brains?

BOOK TALK-THE HEIST SOCIETY

The Heist Society

By Ally Carter

Kat’s family was different. Her family taught her to lie and help them steal from the time she could walk and talk. It’s the family business! Kat wanted out, so she enrolled in a prestigious boarding school where rules must be followed! After three months, she was kicked out for an act of vandalism she didn’t do. Her cousin and a “close friend of the family” set her up to be framed for the vandalism and “spring her” from the school they considered a jail all so she could help them in “the family business.” Now the problem gets worse. A very bad guy thinks her father took his priceless paintings (which didn’t belong to him either), and now he wants Kat to help him get the paintings back, or he will kill Kat’s father. Kat and her cousins and friend find where the paintings are, but can they steal them from a museum without getting caught? Can they get the stolen paintings back to the rightful owners, and put the bad guy in jail, or will they end up in jail or be killed themselves?

BOOK TALK-INCARCERON

Incarceron

By Catherine Fisher

The prison called, Incarceron, is alive, and Finn is in it. They told him he was “hatched” there, but bits of memory are coming back to him. He knows there’s an outside world beyond the vast world of the prison, but who was he there? The prison was created by the intellectual elite to be a paradise, a beautiful mix of organic and mechanical material in an enclosed world, but it’s a horrible and dangerous place. It was meant to rehabilitate criminals, political dissenters, and other social parasites. Now the people in Incarceron live in a fabricated world with strict protocol that forbids the use of washing machines and more advanced techonolgies. Those who created Incarceron want to keep the people from ever creating or developing anything new, but some people on the outside ignore this protocol, developing new technologies in secret. Incarceron is completely cut off from the outside world that created it, except for the Warden, but where is it, and how does the Warden go back and forth? Go with Finn as he tries to escape the awful place, and with Claudia, the Warden’s daughter who discovers the truth about what happened to her childhood friend, Prince Giles, many years ago. He died, right? Incarceron by Catherine Fisher.

BOOK TALK-OUT OF MY MIND

Out of My Mind

By Sharon Draper

Melody is eleven years old and stuck inside her head, and it is driving her out of her mind. She has cerebral palsy. Melody has a photographic memory. She’s the smartest kid in the whole school, and no one knows it. Melody can’t talk, walk, or feed herself. She sees colors when she hears music, and knows thousands of words. She remembers and knows the meaning of everything she’s ever seen or heard, but no one knows. Everyone thinks she’s incapable of learning anything except her parents and a couple of other people. A whole knew world opens up one day when she discovers something that gives her a voice, but not everyone is ready to hear it.

BOOK TALK-MISTY GORDON AND THE GHOST PIRATES

Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates

By Kim Kennedy
Flying diaries! Glasses that let you see ghosts! Crystal balls! Radios that talk to you on their own! Misty Gordon is in the middle of all of it all! When she and her friend Yoshi learn that their small New England town was settled long ago by pirates posing as the English colonists, Misty and Yoshi set out to find the treasure they were looking for. The treasure happens to be a dangerous and powerful one. The treasure is three statues of the Greek gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Whoever has the Golden Three will be able to control their world as they know it. Now the ghosts of the pirates are coming to get the treasure back, and descendants of the three pirates have just died and are after the treasure and Misty too! Can Misty find them before the ghosts pirates? Read Misty Gordon and the Ghosts Pirates by Kim Kennedy.

BOOK TALK- FORGIVE MY FINS

Forgive My Fins

By Tera Lynn Childs

Lily has a secret. Letting anyone know would endanger her whole kingdom. Lily is a mermaid! Lily’s mom was human, and her dad is king of the merfolk under the sea. Lily wants to know what it’s like to live in the modern day human high school world. She must “bond” with her special guy before her next birthday, or she will lose her right to rule the mer kingdom after her father. Lily has know for three years, that popular, good looking, Brody is the one for her, and she just needs to get up enough courage to tell him. Just one problem: next door neighbor biker boy Quince seems out to do nothing but torment her and ruin all her plans for happily ever after with Brody. Why? Sometimes Lily wants to go after him with her father’s trident, but is she too blind to see the truth? Who is her real “mermate?” Will she choose to give up her merkingdom and live on land? Read this modern day version of The Little Mermaid, Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs.