| # | Author | Title | Format | Pages | Release | Publisher | Genre |
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| 1544 | Scott Westerfeld | Extras | Hardcover | 432 | 01 Oct 2007 | Simon Pulse | Science Fiction: Young Adult |
Extras Scott WesterfeldReaderRating: 4.0 (10 votes) DateAdded: 29 Oct 2007 Summary: Fame It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of "American Idol". Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules. As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself. Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.
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| 1545 | Scott Westerfeld | So Yesterday | Hardcover | 240 | 01 Sep 2005 | Razorbill | Science Fiction: Young Adult |
So Yesterday Scott WesterfeldReaderRating: 3.5 (25 votes) DateAdded: 19 Dec 2006 Summary: Ever wonder who was the first kid to keep a wallet on a big chunky chain, or wear way-too-big-pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards? These are the Innovators, the people on the very cusp of cool. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Braque's job is finding them for the retail market. But when a big-money client disappears, Hunter must use all his cool-hunting talents to find her.Along the way he's drawn into a web of brand-name intrigue—a missing cargo of the coolest shoes he's ever seen, ads for products that don't exist, and a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism as we know it.
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Action & Adventure - General Adventure and adventurers Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Espionage Children's All Ages - Fiction - Mystery Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9) Fiction Juvenile Fiction Missing persons Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories Mystery and detective stories Suspense/Thriller Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories |
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