{"id":5532,"date":"2020-02-24T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2020-02-24T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T22:42:28","slug":"ya-books-about-consumerism-media-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2020\/ya-books-about-consumerism-media-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"YA Books about Consumerism & Media Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"

YA Books about Consumerism & Media Consumption<\/h1>\n

by Jane Gov, Youth Services Librarian
\nupdated 2\/20\/2020<\/p>\n

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Feed<\/em> by M.T. Anderson<\/h2>\n

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.<\/p>\n

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon – a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world \u2014 and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.<\/p>\n

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The Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<\/h2>\n

Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning?<\/p>\n

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before – and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.<\/p>\n

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.<\/p>\n

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The Future of Us<\/em> by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler<\/h2>\n

It’s 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They’ve been best friends almost as long\u2014at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh’s family gets a free AOL CD in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they’re automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn’t been invented yet. And they’re looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.<\/p>\n

By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they’re forced to confront what they’re doing right\u2014and wrong\u2014in the present.<\/p>\n

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So Yesterday<\/em> by Scott Westerfeld<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Ready Player One<\/em> by Ernest Cline<\/h2>\n

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place.<\/b>\u00a0The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world’s digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator’s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade’s going to survive, he’ll have to win\u2014and confront the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.<\/p>\n

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One the Come Up<\/em> by Angie Thomas<\/h2>\n

Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri\u2019s got massive shoes to fill.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s hard to get your come up when you\u2019re labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral . . . for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn\u2019t just want to make it\u2014she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be.<\/p>\n

Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn\u2019t always free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YA Books about Consumerism & Media Consumption by Jane Gov, Youth Services Librarian updated 2\/20\/2020   Feed by M.T. Anderson Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. 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