Hacker

Name: Hacker
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

by Malorie Blackman

Interest age: 9 to 11
Reading age: 8+

Published by Random House, 2004

Adventure
Classics
Coming-of-age

About this book

A thriller for computer buffs. Vicky's father is arrested for the theft of millions from the bank where he works. She is determined to prove his innocence but all the evidence is in the computer files. Winner of the 1994 Mind Boggling Book Award.

About the author

Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers.

The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award – Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice – while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994.

Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books.

In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature. She was the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2013-2015.