Deschutes Public Library

Globalization

LPHS
Ms. O'Neil
Spring 2009

Nonfiction about Globalization: www.deschuteslibrary.org/files/globalization_nonfiction.ppt

Fiction about Globalization:


	Nation Pratchett, Terry. After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

	Rash Hautman, Pete, 1952- In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.

	Sold McCormick, Patricia, 1956- Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

	Streams of Babel Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957- Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.

	Daughter of war Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, 1954- Disguised as a Muslim in 1916 Turkey, Marta has escaped certain death. If she is discovered, she will be killed outright or forced to march into the desert to die, like so many Armenians before her. Seperated from her sister and her betrothed, Marta can only wait and hope to find them them again.

	Mortal engines : a novel Reeve, Philip. In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.

	So yesterday : a novel Westerfeld, Scott. Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

	Sunrise over Fallujah Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

	Little brother Doctorow, Cory. After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

	The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain Sís, Peter, 1949- Biography. An adult picture book about growing up in a country filled with restrictions and fear, and how music and art helped the author escape.

	A passage to India Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

	La linea Jaramillo, Ann. When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.

	Feed Anderson, M. T. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

	Snow crash Stephenson, Neal. Hiro Protagonist, delivery boy for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza and freelance hacker in the virtual reality called the Metaverse, tangles with religious cultists, computer virus/drug dealers, and a human bomb known as the Raven in a freewheeling first novel that picks up where cyberpunk left off.

	Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- The plot contains black market body parts, virtual reality, electronic relationships, pleasure palaces, murder, mayhem, cloned assassins, and intrigue in cyberspace.

	The Adoration of Jenna Fox Pearson, Mary. Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox awakens after more than a year in a coma to find herself in a life-and a body-that she doesn't quite recognize. Her parents tell her that she's been in an accident, but much of her past identity and current situation remain a mystery to her: Why has her family abruptly moved from Boston to California, leaving all of her personal belongings behind? And why can Jenna recite whole passages of Thoreau's Walden, but remember next to nothing of her own past? As she watches family videos of her childhood, strange memories begin to surface, and she slowly realizes that a terrible secret is being kept from her.

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