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|title=iBoy
|author=Kevin Brooks
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=304
|publisher=Puffin
|date=July 2010
|isbn=0141326107
|amazonukaznuk=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>|amazonusaznus=0141326107|cover=<amazonus>0141326107</amazonus>
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Another Kevin Brooks book, [[Being by Kevin Brooks]] features a boy with technological implants. It's a super kind of Bladerunner reprise. [[Skinned by Robin Wasserman]] tells the story of Lia, a mech head whose brain was scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into a machine designed to look and feel human after a fatal car accident. Younger readers might enjoy [[Jimmy Coates: Revenge by Joe Craig|Jimmy Coates]] who is a teen assassin and only 38% human.
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|name= Nigethan Sathiyalingam
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|comment= I'm a huge fan of Kevin Brooks, and I'm a huge fan of superpowers, and I'm a huge fan of revenge and vigilante justice (yes, I like Batman). So when I read your review of iBoy, my excitement level was off the chart, and I rushed to get a copy from the library. The book's got everything that a teenage fantasy would have, but it's also incredibly intelligent and hard-hitting. One of those books where I find myself really wishing that I'd written it! It's just so cool! And the great thing about this review is that it then led me to The Knife That Killed Me and Teacher's Dead - thank you very much :)
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