Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a score that determines their future potential. This score can get kids into colleges grant scholarships or destroy all hope for the above. Scored s reluctant heroine is Imani a girl whose high score is brought down when her best friend s score plummets. Where do you draw the line between doing what feels morally right and what can mean your future? Friendship romance loyalty family human connection and human value: all are questioned in this fresh and compelling dystopian novel set in the scarily forseeable future.