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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kids today are growing up with social media and life online, which is a big change from how their grownups grew up! Life online isn't a bad thing, and it isn't necessarily a good thing either. This book shows kids that how you hang out online only tells the whole world who you already are, and that when you show up authentically, creatively, and kindly, you can change the world!"--Publisher's description
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Olivia plans to spend her summer in the Catskills, binge-watching horror movies and chatting with her online friend Elm, but things get complicated when she sends Elm her best friend's picture and she runs into the last person she thought she would ever see in real life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Halle Levitt arrives to spend senior year in her grandfather's small town, she meets Nash, her online best friend who thinks her online persona, Kels, is as confident and popular as he is.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Alexa Tsoulis-Reay's Finding Normal is an author's up close tour of people who are using the Internet to challenge the boundaries of what's taboo and what it means to be normal. Based on a popular series of candid interviews conducted for New York magazine's human science column-"What It's Like"-Finding Normal explores the ways that real people are using the Internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge...
8) Catfish
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev, watching an unsettling story unfold before their eyes.
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rhodes and Iliana couldn't be more different, but that's not why they hate each other. Rhodes, a gifted artist, has always excelled at Alabama's Conservatory of the Arts (until she's hit with a secret bout of creator's block), while Iliana, a transfer student, tries to outshine everyone with her intense, competitive work ethic. Since only one of them can get the coveted Capstone scholarship, the competition between them is fierce. They both escape...
10) Love somebody
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old overachiever Sam attemtps to encourage a love connection between her athletic ex-boyfriend Christian and her academic rival Ros while trying not to fall for Ros herself.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kat Sanchez uses photos of a friend to create a fake Instagram account, but when one of her posts goes viral and exposes Kat's duplicity, her entire world--both real and pretend--comes crashing down around her.
Series
Lovesick Ellie volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eriko Ichimura spends her high school days in complete obscurity. As if that weren't enough, popular boy Akira Ohmi has discovered her Twitter account, "Lovesick Ellie," which is filled to the brim with thirsty tweets -- including fantasies about him. The two-faced Ohmi finds Ellie's perverse and wild fantasies funny and interesting, eventually inviting her to a date at the local festival -- but they miss the last bus home. What is a pervy girl going...
Series
Lovesick Ellie volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At her high school, she's Eriko Ichimura, the girl so boring no one remembers she exists. But online, she's 'Lovesick Ellie,' a brash and lusty alternate persona with quite a viral following! Ellie's favorite pastime? Spying on her handsome and perfect classmate Ohmi and spinning wild fantasies in the form of very thirsty tweets. But one day, quite by accident, Eriko learns that Ohmi isn't as perfect as she thought...and he discovers her secret to...
Series
Lovesick Ellie volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Plain Eriko Ichimura's love and fantasies grow in equal measure as she gets to know smooth-spoken, handsome Akira Ohmi's true bratty nature. What's more, after a rather intimate moment at the library, Ohmi tells her, 'Let's continue--after you pass your exam.' After receiving her 'prize' from Ohmi, Ellie finds her friend, Sara, unwittingly entrenched in school rumors--including one that claims Sara is secretly dating Ohmi?! "--Page [4] of cover.
15) A furry faux paw
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publising Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes Your Best Self Is Your Fursona. Online, MauveCat (a cool, confident, glittering pixie cat) has friends and a whole supportive furry community that appreciates her art. At home, Maeve Stephens has to tiptoe around her hoarder mother's mood and mess. When her life is at its hardest, Maeve can always slip into Mauve, her fursona, and be "the happy one," the bubbliest, friendliest artist in her community--it's even how she made her best friend,...
Series
Lovesick Ellie volume 4
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"#PinkNewWorld. As Ellie gets to know the bratty boy behind handsome Ohmi's smooth-spoken facade, she falls harder and harder for him. In spite of misunderstandings during Sports Day, the two reconcile and confirm each other's feelings in the end. Ellie relishes in the fact that she gets to keep Ohmi to herself and fellow classmates are talking to her more -- including cheeky and aloof Kaname. Meanwhile, tensions grow awkward between Sara and her...
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