Little brother

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Label

Little brother

Statement of responsibility

Cory Doctorow

Creator

• Doctorow, Cory
• trueDoctorow, Cory

Subject

• trueDystopian fiction
• Counterculture -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCyber-thrillers
• trueDystopias
• trueElectronic surveillance
• trueHackers
• trueHacking
• trueMissing persons
• trueNear future
• truePolice questioning
• trueRevenge
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSan Francisco, California
• trueScience fiction
• trueSeventeen-year-old boys
• trueTeenage boys
• trueTeenagers
• trueTerrorism
• Terrorism -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTotalitarianism
• trueUnited States, Department of Homeland Security
• United States, Dept. of Homeland Security -- Juvenile fiction
• trueWire-tapping
• Young adult fiction
• trueCalifornia
• trueCanadian fiction
• trueCivil disobedience
• trueCivil rights
• Civil rights -- Juvenile fiction
• Computer hackers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueCounterculture

Genre

• trueCanadian fiction
• trueCyber-thrillers
• trueDystopian fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueScience fiction
• Young adult fiction

Language

eng

Summary

After being interrogated by the Department of Homeland Security after a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, Marcus is released into what is now a police state and uses his expertise in computer hacking to set things right

Member of

• Little brother, 1

Theme

• truePress play to start

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Award

• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2008
• Golden Duck Awards: Hal Clement Award for Young Adult
• John W. Campbell Award, 2009.
• New York Times Notable Children's Book, 2008
• School Library Journal Best Books: 2008
• Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2009.
• White Pine Award (Ontario), 2009.
• YALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound - Science and Technology: 2009
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2011
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2009
• OLA Best Bets, 2008.
• YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2008.

Awards note

Eliot Rosewater Nominee, 2011-2012.

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• [Fic]

Index

no index present

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

900

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 10
• 12

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Little brother ;

Series volume

1

Target audience

adolescent