Feed by M. T. Anderson

Anderson, M. T.. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2002.

ISBN 9780763617264 $16.99 237 pages

Genre: Science Fiction

Awards: (Anderson, 2012)
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner
New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
Boston Globe-Horn BookAwards – Honor Book
Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
Chicago Public Library Best Books for Children and Teens
ALA (American Library Association) Best Books for Young Adults
Junior Library Guild Selection
Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee)
Riverbank Review Children’s Books of Distinction
Book Sense 76 Top 10 Picks
Horn Book Fanfare
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books – Bulletin Blue Ribbons
Booklist Editors’ Choice

National Book Award Finalist

Annotation:

Titus, like most of the people he knows, lives his life filtered through the feed. The transmitter implanted in his head works miracles by letting him instandtly chat with his friends, listen to new music just by thinking about it and learn about great bargains from his favorite brands. Life is pretty easy going for our hero until he stares across the room and sees beautiful Violet. Violet doesn’t go to SchoolTM and actually wants to see the forests.

Book Whisper technique

For Titus, life is just about perfect - except for the occasional ennui and those weird lesions that everyone is getting – until on a Moon trip he meets Violet and everything he thought he knew starts to slowly unravel in Feed.

Index card

Titus & fiends are “average” teens

Everyone is connected to the feed

Life is simple and concrete.

Story begins with a casual trip to the moon.

Titus meets Violet.

Hacker incident lets the lovers grow closer.

Violet is different and fun. Everything seems “new’ to her.

Moon incident left lingering issues.

Back on Earth, the couple gets closer.

Growing problems with the feed

Life quickly becomes uncertain.

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