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| Bar Code Tattoo | 
 enlarge | Author: Suzanne Weyn
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
Buy New: $15.30
Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 3809408
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 252
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1417641894
EAN: 9781417641895
ASIN: 1417641894
Publication Date: August 15, 2004
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Product Description
The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Indivuality vs. conformity.. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Excellent Book September 15, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I read this book in only 3 days which is suprising because i am usually not a big reader but i just couldn't put this book down.
It takes place in the future where everybody is required to get a bar code tattoo when they turn 17. But what is really hidden in the tattoo? What does it do that it is changing so many peoples lives around? and what would happen if you didn't want get it?
You will not be able to put this book down as you read about the corruptness of the bar code tattoo.
I highly recommend this book and i found it very exciting and well written.
Tyranny Takes Hold August 31, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
In the world of the near future, people are getting bar codes tattooed on their arms to make life easier. If you want to pay for something, just flash your tattoo. It can't be stolen or lost and its very secure. But despite the advantages there are still some how do not trust the tattoo. They feel their rights and freedoms are taken away by the tattoo. Kayla is one who does not want the tattoo. Then things begin to go very wrong starting with the suicide of Kayla's father.
Kayla's best friend is out on the street when her family's tattoo seem to have stopped working. They need to move to a relative's house. More and more trouble seems to be brewing. Then Kayla finds herself on the run from the law and it becomes criminal not to have a tattoo. Kayla joins up with other resisters and work on strengthening themselves for a confrontation with the world of the tattoo. Is there something sinister in the bar codes? What is really going on with the tattoos? You will have to read to find out.
A very good and scar story that shows how freedom can be lost slowly without resistance. Although the story idea come from the Book of Revelations, this is not a religious story. Nor is it political. It is mostly emotional. Kayla makes a wonderful backdrop to view changing society against. I was somewhat confused by the corporation behind the tattoo. It seems to be an entity unto itself without actual people behind it. It is had to believe that anyone behind the tattoo would use it to make the masses smarter, stronger, healthier and more powerful than themselves. I think people should read this book before something similar happens in the real world. Check it out.
The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyne January 23, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
The year is 2025 and the latest craze is the Barcode Tattoo. It `s very convenient. Credit cards, debit cards, checks, cash, change... no longer needed. All information is now contained in the barcode tattoo. Now, even a teenager's allowance can be controlled by the barcode tattoo. To many, in this high-tech world, the barcode tattoo is great, convenient, and the thing to have. But is it really? What is really contained in a barcode? 17-year-old Kayla begins to question the use of them when her father, an FBI researcher, becomes insane over the tattoo and commits suicide trying to remove it. Her mother, a nurse, also makes some amazing discoveries about what the tattoo really contains. In fact, she too commits suicide trying to remove the tattoo. Now orphaned, Kayla runs for her life with an organization called "Decode", trying to escape the new law that has just been passed issuing everyone to be tattooed on his or her seventeenth birthday.
This riveting science fiction tale will be a best seller among our young adults. Weyn incorporates a lot of today's technology such as email, credit cards and just pumps up the technology slightly to make this story very realistic. She points out how things can be traced with credit cards, email, and cellular phones and incorporates how the tattoo is even more dangerous as modern society begins to take on Marxist beliefs. She also incorporates some new teen lingo into the story. Throughout the story she uses terms such as "people are all banged out"(mad, bent out of shape) and it adds some appeal. Character development is great, and the story is realistic. This book is a winner.
Kelly Anthony
Librarian
Rogers CAPA/ Greenway Middle
 Never Should Have Been Published March 14, 2005
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Where to start? This book is so horrifically bad that it's difficult to describe my intense dislike of it in words. Here's a list of its problems:
1. The main character, Kaela or something, is a Mary Sue, meaning that she is *perfect* in every way. She has a tragic past. She's pretty, smart, ALWAYS gets the guy she wants, and, oh, she's actually a powerful psycic! Excuse me whilst I vomit.
2. The plot is rather obvious. Everyone who you think is evil is, in fact, evil. The "plot-twists" are there only to prove how perfect and invincible Kaela is.
3. There's no character development. All the characters are WAY under-developed, and most of them are really annoying.
4. There's a lot of information dumping. The book would be a lot creepier if we didn't know why people were getting these tattoos or who was behind them. And even if it was vital that we know all of this, the author could have been much more creative in the way she told us the backstory.
5. It's cliched; this is probably one of the worst "formula" books I've ever read. It's like the author bought a book on the most used, tired plotlines, characters, and sayings and wrote a book after that.
6. It lacks variety. Every other chapter ends with "Oh my god!" Kaela (said/whispered/screamed). This is almost always followed by a big letdown in the first sentence on the next page.
There you have it; six of the MANY things terribly wrong with this book. I implore you with all of my heart to NOT read it!
 Good for teenagers who don't want to be challenged March 21, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Overall this wasn't a bad book. The premise was interesting, the action was fast-paced(although some events were far-fetched and a little too convenient), and it kept me entertained. A teenager looking for an entertaining book to keep them occupied in English class should pick this up.
However, readers looking for something complex and deep in the story will be disappointed. The characters are underdeveloped and flat(Mfumbe and Zekeal are practically the same person), the plot-twists are often predictable or convenient, and the ending seems rushed. The author could have done so much more with this.
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