Pirate Cinema Contributor(s): Doctorow, Cory (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765329093 ISBN-13: 9780765329097 Publisher: Tor Teen
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Young Adult Fiction | Dystopian |
Dewey: FIC |
Age Level: 13-18 |
Grade Level: 8-13 |
Lexile Measure: 1030(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.55" W x 8.2" L (0.72 lbs) 384 pages |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 159176 Reading Level: 6.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
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Publisher Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother Cory Doctorow comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny. Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the Net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household's access to the Internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal. Trent's too clever for that to happen. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a single stroke. Things look bad. Parliament is subject to the demands of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds.... |
Contributor Bio(s): Doctorow, Cory: - Cory Doctorow is a coeditor of Boing Boing, a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were a New York Times bestsellers. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles. |
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