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  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446453513
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Hacker




A thought-provoking thriller for Middle grade readers from iconic author, Malorie Blackman. Now with a fresh package.


Life changes completely for Vicky when she arrives home from school one day to find that her father has been arrested, accused of stealing over a million pounds from the bank where he works.

But Vicky knows for sure her dad is innocent and she is determined to prove it.

Using all the computer skills her dad taught her, she decides she's going to attempt to break into the bank's computer files. An amazing hacker she might be but she's going to have to find the cyber-thief and stop them before they find her . . .

  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446453513
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over seventy books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief and a science-fiction thriller, Chasing the Stars. Many of her books have also been adapted for stage and television, including a BAFTA-award-winning BBC production of Pig-Heart Boy and a Pilot Theatre stage adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz of Noughts & Crosses. There is also a major BBC production of Noughts & Crosses, with Roc Nation (Jay-Z’s entertainment company) curating the soundtrack as executive music producer. 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 received an OBE for her services to children’s literature, and between 2013 and 2015 she was the Children’s Laureate. Most recently Malorie wrote for the Doctor Who series on BBC One, and the fifth novel in her Noughts & Crosses series, Crossfire, was published by Penguin Random House Children’s in summer 2019.

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Praise for Hacker

Refreshingly new . . . Malorie Blackman writes with such winsome vitality

Daily Telegraph

A page-turner

Sunday Express

Accept the expertise and race along with the plot

Observer