Friday, July 24, 2009

May #3 - THE BAR CODE TATTOO


Title: The bar code tattoo

Author: Suzanne Weyn

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Copyright: 2004

ISBN: 0-439-39562-3

Series or stand-alone: #1

Setting:Year 2025

1st Sentence:

Outside, rain drummed against the window.


Comments:

Kayla Reed is about to turn 17, the age when she can get her barcode tattoo. However, when a traumatic thing happens in her life, it triggers an expanding suspicion of the tattoo or "too", in this book. Along with a small group of other teens opposed to the tattoo, they work together to find out what's up with the barcode and Global-1, a company which seeks to control the world.


This was quite scary in a 1984 Orwellian way but a very interesting concept. I've put #2 on my TBR list.

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