Fake by Ele Fountain

GENRE: Near-future dystopia; speculative fiction/science fiction

In a digital world it’s hard to know what’s real. In this near-future
dystopia, antibiotics no longer work, so children are educated at home
until the age of 14, after which they attend boarding school. This is the
fate of Jess and her friend Finn, but not Jess’s sister Chloe who is too
ill to go to school and needs regular medication which her parents
struggle to afford as they strive to gain credits from their meagre
commercial practices, such as selling honey and produce from their
garden. Jess, however, is an expert computer hacker, and with the
help of her enigmatic online friend JP, she seeks to hack the
pharmaceutical company that supplies Chloe’s medicine.
A short, but very eventful and satisfying read if you like stories based
in virtual worlds, AI, computers and dystopias. This is ideal for KS3
readers.