Teen Tech

Goetchius, Alex.   Career Building Through Social Networking

Gives tips and advice for using online social networking sites such as MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook to market oneself, find a mentor, and upload resumes and portfolios.    

       

Gregson, Susan R.   Cyber Literacy: Evaluating the Reliability of Data

Round and round the World Wide Web we go -- The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? -- The good, the bad, the totally untrue -- Get your information the smart way -- When the WWW spills into the real world -- Where will cyber literacy go from here?           

 

Orr, Tamra.   Privacy and Hacking

Perks with a price -- Inside cyber criminals -- Hacking : a right or a crime? -- Computer crime and punishment -- Off into the future.                      

 

 

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Barnes, Jennifer Lynn.  The Squad: Perfect Cover

High school sophomore Toby Klein enjoys computer hacking and wearing combat boots, so she thinks it is a joke when she is invited to join the cheerleading squad but soon learns cheering is just a cover for an elite group of government operatives known as the Squad.    

 

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn.   The Squad: Killer Spirit

As if it were not bad enough that sophomore computer hacker Toby Klein has to be a cheerleader to be part of the elite group of government operatives called the Squad, now she is part of the Homecoming court and has agreed to attend the dance with the most popular boy in school.    

 

Doctorow, Cory.    Little Brother

After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, 17-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

 

Finn, Katie.  Top 8

When popular high school junior Madison's online profile is hacked, it sends her life into turmoil and forces her to reevaluate some important matters as she figures out who did it.    

 

Hulme, John.  The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep

When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens the ability of everyone to ever fall asleep again.                       

 

Kilbourne, Christina.   Dear Jo: The Story of Losing Leah…and Searching for Hope

Maxine and her best friend Leah enjoyed chatting with boys online, and so what if they lied about their ages--it was just Internet stuff. But when Leah disappeared, Max realized they weren't the only ones lying online. And what has happened to Leah?