The Unidentified
The Unidentified
The Unidentified
Rae Mariz
Fifteen-year-old Katey (aka Kid) goes to school in the Game—a mall converted into a “school” run by corporate sponsors. As the students play their way through the levels, they are also creatingproducts and being used for market research by the sponsors, who are watching them 24/7 on video cameras.Kid has a vague sense of unease but doesn’t question this existence until one day she witnesses a shocking anticorporateprank. She follows the clues to uncover the identities of the people behind it and discovers an anonymous group that callsitself the Unidentified. Intrigued by their countercultureideas and enigmatic leader, Kid is drawn into the group. But when the Unidentified’s pranks and even Kid’s own identity are co-opted by the sponsors, Kid decides to do something bigger—something that could change the Game forever.This funny, sharp, and thought-provoking novel heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in teen fiction.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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The Unidentified is a story about the Game - a mall converted into a school run by corporate sponsors who watch the students 24/7 on camera and use them for research to create new consumer products marketed directly at them. Told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old Katey (aka Kid) who doesn't fit well into this existence, when one day after witnessing a shocking and controversial anti-corporate prank, she tracks down the people behind it and traces it back to a group called the Unidentified, named so because the refuse to be labeled by corporate sponsors.

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