Margot Mertz Takes It Down
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school.
For the right price, high school junior Margot Mertz will go to the ends of the internet to remove your nip-slip, dick pic, or embarrassing DM. At least that's what it says on her business card. Margot founded a now notorious company that helps students, teachers, even a local weatherman, discreetly clean up their digital shame. And since her parents lost her college fund, Margot is happy to work for anyone... if they can pay, she can clean.
But when a fellow student hires her to take down some leaked nudes, Margot discovers a secret revenge porn site featuring Roosevelt High girls. And hell hath no fury like Margot when she sees girls’ butts shared without their consent. With the help of an unwitting ally, the popular and uncomfortably handsome Avery Green, Margot will gain access to the far flung cliques of Roosevelt High. Anything to find the mastermind (read: asshole) behind the site. But the more she digs, the deeper and darker the case becomes until Margot realizes that some jobs are so dirty, no one can come away clean. Even her. Gross.
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For "teachers, students, parents, and one time a state legislator," white high school junior Margot Mertz ("Entrepreneur. Tech-curious. Lone wolf") cleans up "life-destroying" internet errors. The work sometimes puts her into moral gray areas, but since her parents have lost her college fund, she needs the money to pay for college. When a classmate hires Margot to take down a well-designed, password-protected revenge porn website featuring female classmates without their consent, she's furious at its existence and eager to help. But parlaying her reluctant bond with popular, biracial (Black/white) Avery Green turns up little information from her suspects. And since the victims don't want any guys involved, she can't ask her hacker friend Sammi Santos, who's Dominican American, for a cleanup assist. Married collaborators McCrossen and McWethy don't pull punches (the victims' distress, and the fact that no one thinks the school administration will intervene, are realistically rendered), while making Margot a sympathetic, fury-propelled narrator with a winningly noir-inflected voice. Ages 14–up.
