Without Tess by Marcella Pixley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Lizzie watched her sister slowly deteriorate and die.  Tess promised to never leave, but she still died.  
After Tess died, Lizzie snatched Tess's Journal and has clung to it and the memories it holds ever since.  She often reminisces about the good times and getting pulled in to Tess's magical make-believe world.  Lizzie was too young to realize how dangerous Tess’s magical world could be.
Now Lizzie is in high school and lost in a world of guilt and grief.
How can Lizzie make peace with what happened to Tess?  Can she start to live her own life?


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For The Win by Cory Doctorow
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

On-line gamers beware!
Millions of people around the world addictively play in multiplayer online games, battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of “gold farmers” slave in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers then sell to First World gamers for real money.

But unrest brews across the globe as slave gamers unite to create a union that challenges the status quo. From the US to China to India, young gamers fight pitched battles in the virtual world.   Their aim: crash the economy of every virtual world and win their emancipation.


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