Scored
Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a "score" that determines their future potential. This score has the ability to get kids into colleges,...
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Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a "score" that determines their future potential. This score has the ability to get kids into colleges, grant scholarships, or destroy all hope for the above. Scored's reluctant heroine is Imani, a girl whose high score is brought down when her best friend's score plummets. Where do you draw the line between doing what feels morally right and what can mean your future? Friendship, romance, loyalty, family, human connection and human value: all are questioned in this fresh and compelling dystopian novel set in the scarily forseeable future.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375868207 (0375868208)
Publish date: October 25th 2011
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Teen,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Romance,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Utopia
Un 3,5 en realidadLa puntuación es una novela distópica que invita a reflexionar sobre algunos aspectos más clasistas de nuestra sociedad y hacia dónde nos pueden llevar éstos. Con un lenguaje adecuado, unos fundamentos bien explicados y un ritmo constante y ameno, Lauren MacLaughlin nos incita a re...
Everything depends on your score. High scores guarantee entrance to college and low scores make it difficult to get a job at all. Scores in the 70′s give people the option to work in retail or health services – completely respectable professions, but this isn’t the life Imani wants for herself. She...
Very enjoyable- review to come! (:
Imagine a world where your every move is watched. Every decision you make, no matter how small it might seem to you, dictates how "fit" you are for society. College, a good job, a family, that all revolves around your score. You are scored on who you spend time with, how healthy you are, what you re...