The Bar Code Tattoo

The Bar Code Tattoo

"The Bar Code Tattoo" was an interesting book of adventure, romance, and science fiction. The book is about a girl named Kayla and how she fights for what she believes in. When the town Kayla lives in starts to get more technology, people start to get a tattoo of a barcode that holds everything a person would need like money, health records, and other personal information. But, when people start to go insane and the barcode becomes mandatory Kayla and her friends think of plans to get away from it all and escape to the Adirondack Mountains. Kayla must be brave and fight for what she thinks is right with the help of the friends and the calming effect of peppermint gum.
This book explains that you need to stand up for what you believe in and not just go along with the crowd because doing what everyone else is doing is not always the best option. With it's twists and turns this book was just so hard to put down! This story is a page turner and something that most people ages ten and up would enjoy. Kayla is a good role model for people of all ages. She fights for what's right and she doesn't go along with the crowd even when times get rough. "The Bar Code Tattoo" is just an all around good book.

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Great, until the end

This book is an exciting adventure of love and finding your own true self, no matter what. Kayla decides she wants to be original and doesn't follow the trend, and that's when she realizes that there's something more to the tatto than what they're telling. The tatto totally meeses up her life: It killed her father and is driving her mother crazy. It drives a wedge between her and her best friend, but she also joins a new circle of friends who share her views on the tatto. It's a great book, but the ending's a little cheesy.

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Dystopian perfection in a small package

When I picked this book up to read it, I thought it would be a quick easy read. I was dead wrong...the book is full to the brim of essential story information and keeps you reading until the end. I love stories that end a chapter with an event so exciting you have to turn the page to see what happens...before you know it...you are done!

I am reading the Bar Code Rebellion right now and put away 6 chapters this morning already :)

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Jaw Dropper

pros: This book keeps you on your feet , hard to pull away fromcons: few grapic parts - but she makes up for them in suspenceMs. Weyn has done it! She has come up with a series bound to make you addicted to them. This book is a great suspence! Their were a few parts where I felt so into the book that I could actually felt the main characters sorrow, anger, and fear. I recommend the series !

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Creepy

Great book. Well written. I can definetly see these events happening.

wow this could really happen

this is an amazing book. the main character is a strong girl that doesn't care what people think about her.when the bar code tattoos become in style she thinks they are weird and doesn't want one.weird things start to take place in her family and friends lives that she blames on the tattoos. Is she right? Are the tattoos really making people suffer?

Is this the same as "The Bar Code Rebellion"?

If it is then this is a great book and I'd recommend it to anyone who loves futuristic type books. (:

Loved It

In the book, The Bar Code Tattoo, the main character Kayla Reed tries to rebel against getting the Bar Code Tattoo. Kayla is a teenage girl who lives in the year 2024 in New York, New York. She, as well as others, dresses in jumpsuits or neon colored clothing (Future Clothing). Kayla is one, out of a group of kids who don't get the tattoo. Kayla gets accused of something terrible, that she didn't do, and not having the bar code becomes a problem. After not having the bar code becomes illegal for anybody ages 17+, Kayla finds herself in trouble to keep herself clean from the tattoo. So Kayla joins the resistance from the bar code, with her KNOTU2 group (The other kids without the tattoo). I loved The Bar Code Tattoo because I found it very interesting. I became hooked right after I read the first few pages. I loved Kayla`s opinion on things because it is the same way I would react to the situation. Kayla thought there was something wrong, so she did the research. Kayla had went through a lot of rough times, which have also led her into believing that the tattoo was bad, and I admire her for that. The book The Bar Code Rebellion is the sequel to the Bar Code Tattoo. I thought the book was great, and I would definitely recommend this book for others to read.

best book ever

this is the best book i have read science 2004

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Sooo Amazing

I loved the book. It was so different!!! It takes place in the future and totally talks about government corruption and people fighting back!! It just shows how strong a society of people, or just a few people can be!! And it's always cool when people actually work together.

Great Book

It's the future and you have to have the bar code tattoo to get a license and buy things, and what's even worse it's against the law if you don't have it. I believe this book is a great piece of work and holds your interest in a page turning thriller. The main character Kayla is almost 17 and is leery of the tattoo. The tattoo holds personal information about everyone who has it. Kayla enters a rebellion group against the tattoo with some friends until she must run for her life in an intense flee from Global 1 (the bar code police)to a refuge in the Adirondacks. If you are like me this book will keep you on edge wanting to read more and more. I recommend this book for people 12 and over.

Intriguing Idea

Reminds me of Ira Levin's This Perfect Day. The implications of the story are scary ones. I hope the powers that be don't get any ideas. A quick interesting read.

bar code tattoo

This book is absolutly amazing i love this book. I'm going to beg my mom to buy me this series for christmas. It's amazingly realistic and you will find yourself reading it all day.

My book review for the Bar Code Tattoo

The Bar Code Tattoo, in my opinion, was a really great book. I thought that in the beginning it needed to have more action, but once I got into the body of the book the action came and it kept me wanting to know more. One thing that I thought could have been better was the amount of suspense. Every challenge that came was solved almost immediately. There was never a choice of what to do or how Kayla could get out of each conflict that happened. It just instantly was okay. If I could go back and change something in the book, I think that the thing I would change would be to make more suspense so that the solution to each problem was not so predictable. Other than this, I thought that the book was pretty well written and it kept me interested the whole time I was reading.

awesome book

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Amazingly awesome book!

The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn is a great book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. Suzanne did a very good job writing this book. She developed her characters so well, that you feel like you have known them all of your life.
This book is set in the future. In this version of the future, people do not carry money with them at all. You used an e-card, which are like credit cards, until you were seventeen. Then, you would get a bar code tattoo. When you get the bar code tattoo people would scan it and that is how you would pay for things. That is not the only thing the bar code tattoo does. It also holds all of you information, even your licenses. So, basically you would not have to carry anything around anymore.
Though, not everybody looks at this as a good thing. There are little groups every where that rebel against the bar code tattoos. They think that they destroy your life. Their theory is that when they tattoo the bar code on, they put in some type of micro-robots. They say that when you are breaking a law or getting to close to exposing the government, they turn the robots on. The robots make you either sick or do nothing at all.
So, they chose not to have the bar code tattoo.
Here's the catch, not having the bar code tattoo is against the law. The people protesting the tattoo say that they should just stick with the e-cards, or who ever wants the tattoo can get it and who ever does not want the tattoo does not have to get it. The government told them that it is easier to keep track of people when they have the tattoo.
The Bar Code Tattoo is a fantastic book. I suggest that you get yourself a copy and read it. This book is sad at times, but it is also happy at other times. It balances itself out perfectly. Also, The Bar Code Tattoo has a sequel. It is called The Bar Code Rebellion. It was even better then the first one. So, read this book and enjoy.

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captivating and spectacular.

When I first saw this book I thought "Hmm, this might be interesting." And it was. I enjoyed it all and thought it was very creative. I read over and over and never get tired of it. It has a special thrilling evasiveness to it by trying to get away from the Bar code Tattoo and running from the government. It's hard to put the book down once you pick it up. I highly recomend reading this book.

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I am a sixth grade student in Glendale, Arizona.

Barcode Tattoo By Suzanne Weynne.
Review:
In the book, The Bar Code Tattoo, Kayla, an ordinary teen ager attending a high school like every other teen. Kayla has had a problem with the bar code since it became legal in the United States after it became legal in Russia. Everyone was getting it on their seventeenth birthday. She was having trouble in school with the whole scholarship time of the year. One day when she was walking in the halls, she bumped into a student named Zekeal and he was part of a rebellion group towards the bar code tattoo. When she tells her best friend, Amber, she doesn¿t approve of their acquaintance. When she meets the whole group, she wanted to be a part of it since she was against it like them.

On her way home from school, she finds an ambulance in her drive way and runs to the yard. She saw a body in a body bag and runs to the front door of her two story house and finds her mother sobbing in great dispair and finds out her father was so depressed, he committed suicide. Now that it was two thousand twenty, the bar code tattoo became a requirement and everyone had to have it or they would either get arrested or wait until they were seventeen to get it.

This book was a book that I thought was a lesson to learn. It was, you sometimes have to live with some things in life that you can¿t change no matter how much you try.

I can connect to this book. My connection is, in one point in my life I had a problem with the way something was ran. It was, I didn't like the rules for me and my family's house and there wasn't anything I could do about it because they were rules and rules are rules and you can't change them.
I really did enjoy this book because I had never read anything like it before and also because it was a mystery to what makes the bar code what it is in the worlds of the characters. Also, you have to face what the world throws at you. I also enjoyed this book because Kayla learns to communicate mentally with she knows and doesn¿t know.

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it was amazing

a page turner keeping me on the edge of my seat I coulkdnt stop reading it the ending made me know it had a sequel it was kinda obvios

Is it really talking about what happen in the book of Revelations

The barcode tattoo was a interesting book that took me no more than two days to read. It was good. I won't i wasted my time reading it...in the beginning it did get confusing. I like the part where is mentioned the part about the mark of the beast. Yes it is ture, the anti-Christ will come and people would fall and get the mark. Would you follow? I dislike how it stirred away from that subject though. I will buy the sequel to see what that book has to say.

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