Weyn, Suzanne. The Bar Code Tattoo. New York City: Scholastics Inc., 2004. 250 pages. (Sci-Fi)Kayla Reid is amidst a great national change. There is a new form of identification in the United States of America. The Bar Coe Tattoo. Just like on a cereal box, people all over the country are getting a series of lines tattooed onto their wrist. Few people find reason to resist at first, it’s will only make life easier, right? But as time progresses people learn there is much more than just your name and birth date in these codes. And for some families these things are enough to ruin their whole life. Faced with betrayal, and heartbroken at the loss of three of the closest people in her life, Kayla finds refuge with other resistors. As the bar code tattoo becomes a law in the US everyone who doesn’t have it is committing a crime. It’s time to fight.
I would say this book was pretty good! I love the idea, and it is very original, but the writing is lacking some detail. It kind of skips from one event to the next, not taking enough time to explain things in depth. The characters are good, but they’re not extremely original... they’re just people you’d expect to find in any other book. Other than those few things, I found this book extremely enthralling. An exciting plot made up for the weak points. Don’t miss the next book: The Bar Code Rebellion!
Reviewed by: DancingPenguin96
