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Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Author
Series
Outlaw chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations. But when the biggest job of her life goes wrong, she's plunged into a desperate situation with only one way out: one last hack that will either save her or kill her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll...
5) Hacking
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the threat hacking poses to computer security.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the State's electronic...
Author
Series
Kidd novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop. Now Kidd is doubly disturbed. The murderer is still at large and now has enough secret information to hang a whole lot of people, including Kidd himself. Dodging both the law and other computerheads who want Bobby's information, kidd has to move fast if he is going to survive.
10) Neuromancer
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Matrix unfolds like neon origami beneath clusters and constellations of data. Constructs, AIs, live here. Somewhere, concealed by ice, Neuromancer is evolving. As entropy goes into reverse, Molly's surgical implants broadcast trouble from the ferro-concrete geodesic of the Sprawl. Maelcum, Rastafarian in space, is her best hope of rescue. But she and Case, computer cowboy, are busy stealing data from the almighty Megacorps. If the Megacorps do...
11) Sneakers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When computer expert Martin Bishop and his team of renegade hackers are blackmailed into carrying out a covert operation to recover a mysterious black box, they discover factions from all sides are willing to kill for it.
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 11
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A mysterious political operative needs the Sisterhood to track down a computer hacker who stole a list of secret fundraisers' names, but the job proves to be more dangerous than they thought.
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This guide to codebreakers covers every type of code from hieroglyphs to hackers. It is designed to appeal to reluctant readers with "weird world" feature boxes, dramatic photographs, close-up views, lots of quirky facts and figures, and a mega reference section.
14) Brain Jack
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.
15) Don't look now
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Noa continues her efforts to protect runaways from the illicit experiments being conducted by a sinister corporation, while hacker Peter struggles to support her and work against the company on behalf of his victimized girlfriend.
Author
Series
Find me volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.
17) Brain Jack
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
So begins an evening unlike any other in Port Charles. When high- powered attorney Diane Miller agrees to meet with computer hacker extraordinaire Damian Spinelli, otherwise known as The Jackal, she knows she's in for an interesting night. But the stories he has to tell about some of Port Charles's most famous, and infamous, inhabitants are beyond her wildest imagination. Could these tales possibly be true? Or is Spinelli using her for some other...
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.