Futuristic book; boy realises everyone is being controlled/ programmed by there mind

[Becky]

I read part of this book two years ago in UK YEAR NINE ENGLISH CLASS.

I was about this boy who realises everyone is being controlled by things like the radios and the government type people are controlling them.

Sadly this is all i can remember :(

[Tab]

Becky, do you remember the cover?
Was it new when you read it?
Other characters, villains, sidekicks?
What was the setting? Big city, post apocalyptic, Mars, etc?

[Becky]

Tab wrote: "Becky, do you remember the cover?
Was it new when you read it?
Other characters, villains, sidekicks?
What was the setting? Big city, post apocalyptic, Mars, etc?"

I think it was a year or two old when we read it and i seem to think the cover was black with maybe a eye on the front i think i remember something about an eye.
Other characters there was another boy in it his friend i imagine.
I think it was set in a futuristic big city im sure he worked out that the radios and schools and thoughts was all programmed into them.

[Claire]

Sounds to me like Pam Bachorz's "Candor", but i highly doubt that that's your book... Sorry.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Candor for the click for Claire's suggestion

[Andy Phillips]

Not quite a perfect match, but maybe This Perfect Day. It's control by drugs mainly, but I can't remember if there is some sort of signal too. I thought this is a classic book that might be read in a school.

[Lsophia]

There's a short story that covers this theme - "A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy" by Raymond F. Jones. I first read it in The Other Side of Tomorrow by Roger Elwood. The story is about how a young man discovers additives in his food, along with subliminal signals in the media are controlling the population.

[Lsophia]

There's another story in the same anthology - "Examination Day" by Gordon Eklund - that has similar themes.

[Rafi]

Andy Phillips wrote: "Not quite a perfect match, but maybe This Perfect Day. It's control by drugs mainly, but I can't remember if there is some sort of signal too. I thought this is a classic book that mi..."

no, there wasn't anything like radio control, but everything was ostensibly run by a giant computer, and the mc became involved in a rebellion to destroy it. Excellent book!

[Tesh]

Becky, if none of the above are it, was the book required reading for the class? Might it be on a syllabus list online?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Becky, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

No response. Moving to Abandoned.