The Bar Code Prophecy
by:
Suzanne Weyn (author)
The third book in the Bar Code series, in which one girl struggles to escape the conformity of a dystopian world.Grace lives a normal life. She goes to school during the day and works part-time at the multinational corporation Global-1. She has a crush on a boy named Eric and wonders if he feels...
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The third book in the Bar Code series, in which one girl struggles to escape the conformity of a dystopian world.Grace lives a normal life. She goes to school during the day and works part-time at the multinational corporation Global-1. She has a crush on a boy named Eric and wonders if he feels the same way. And when she turns seventeen, she's going to get a bar code tattoo.Her world seems very peaceful and predictable.But then it explodes.As soon as Grace gets the bar code tattoo, she comes home to find her family gone and Global-1 police swarming all over the place. In a split second, her life changes. Now she's on the run, part of a dark conspiracy and an extraordinary prophecy that will change the world forever.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780545425308 (0545425301)
ASIN: 545425301
Publish date: September 24th 2013
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Series: Bar Code (#3)
The story follows Grace, a girl turning 17 in 2 weeks, excited to become an adult with a barcode tattoo: a mark that encodes all of your pertinent personal information in it. Some people fear that people are being taken advantage of or spied on through the tattoo�s nanobots, but everyone is supposed...
The GoodThe "enemy" point of view. I love love loved the idea of telling the last installment in this trilogy from the point of view of a Global 1 (aka big brother) sympathizer. I hate it when books drum out the idea that everyone on the "other side" is evil, corrupt, and eats babies for lunch. Weyn...