Thursday, January 7, 2010

Icecore by Matt Whyman - ADVISABLE


Whyman, Matt Icecore, 307 p. Atheneum (Simon), 2007

Violence: PG-13: Language: PG

MS, HS – ADVISABLE

17yo Carl Hobbes is a computer-hacker and international felon.  What started out as a prank for curiosities sake, has landed Carl in a deep frozen, maximum security prison in the Arctic, surrounded by hardcore prisoners and hardcore guards. Now his life in a danger from everyone around him – and though he thinks if he just cooperates he will be safe and back home soon, he couldn’t be more wrong. More than one someone around him has a deep plan that involves icing Carl permanently, if he gets in their way. 

Lots of gunfire, death and danger – maybe too much info on computer hacking, but it makes sense in tying the story together.

Cindy, Library-Teacher.

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