The Bar Code Tattoo

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I read this book in only 3 days which is suprising because i am usually not a big reader but i just couldn't put this book down.
It takes place in the future where everybody is required to get a bar code tattoo when they turn 17. But what is really hidden in the tattoo? What does it do that it is changing so many peoples lives around? and what would happen if you didn't want get it?
You will not be able to put this book down as you read about the corruptness of the bar code tattoo.
I highly recommend this book and i found it very exciting and well written.

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Summary: kool
Review: I couldn't put this book down. Once I picked it up I was totally hooked. I couldn't believe the way I was drawn into the story of Kayla Reed and her fight to retain her human dignity and identity in the face of mass conformity. I think this book speaks to many things going on in our world today.

Rating:
Summary: The Bar Code Tattoo
Review: The year is 2025 and the latest craze is the Barcode Tattoo. It `s very convenient. Credit cards, debit cards, checks, cash, change... no longer needed. All information is now contained in the barcode tattoo. Now, even a teenager's allowance can be controlled by the barcode tattoo. To many, in this high-tech world, the barcode tattoo is great, convenient, and the thing to have. But is it really? What is really contained in a barcode? 17-year-old Kayla begins to question the use of them when her father, an FBI researcher, becomes insane over the tattoo and commits suicide trying to remove it. Her mother, a nurse, also makes some amazing discoveries about what the tattoo really contains. In fact, she too commits suicide trying to remove the tattoo. Now orphaned, Kayla runs for her life with an organization called "Decode", trying to escape the new law that has just been passed issuing everyone to be tattooed on his or her seventeenth birthday.
This riveting science fiction tale will be a best seller among our young adults. Weyn incorporates a lot of today's technology such as email, credit cards and just pumps up the technology slightly to make this story very realistic. She points out how things can be traced with credit cards, email, and cellular phones and incorporates how the tattoo is even more dangerous as modern society begins to take on Marxist beliefs. She also incorporates some new teen lingo into the story. Throughout the story she uses terms such as "people are all banged out"(mad, bent out of shape) and it adds some appeal. Character development is great, and the story is realistic. This book is a winner.

Kelly Anthony
Librarian
Rogers CAPA/ Greenway Middle