Anna Was Here by Jane Kurtz

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Safety rules for moving:

  1. Wrap sharp items in newspapers or soft cloth.
  2. Throw away candles, matches, shaving cream, and anything else that can easily catch fire.
  3. Pack heavy things in small boxes.
  4. Keep your medicine and important papers with you.
  5. Always know where your cat is.
  6. Bring a sleeping bag in case you hate your new bed.
  7. Try to get your parents to turn around and go back home!

Anna Nickel is moving to Kansas, against her will and without her Safety Club (small though it may be) to back her up. She doesn't know what kind of disasters she needs to prepare for in Kansas or how she'll fit in. With Midnight H. Cat, her sister Isabella, Mom and Dad, she bravely leaves Colorado to face Kansas challenges head-on.

For the Win by Cory Doctorow

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Any gamers out there?  This one’s for you.  Wei-Dong lives in L.A. and lives for playing MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role playing games) like World of Warcraft or SkyRim.  He’s picked up a bunch of friends from China to go on raids with him, but what Wei-Dong doesn’t know is that his friends are actually “gold farmers,” playing the game as a job, amassing game wealth that can be sold to Western players at a mark-up.  When he finds out how his friends are being exploited, he knows he has to push back.  He teams up with his friends and start planning a rebellion, one the likes of which no one has seen before.  What starts as an in game revolution turns into a real life protest that can have deadly consequences for all involved.