Backlash
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4.7 • 122개의 평가
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- US$6.99
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In critically acclaimed author Sarah Darer Littman's gripping new novel what happens online doesn't always stay online . . .Lara just got told off on Facebook. She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school's homecoming dance. It's been a long time since Lara's felt this bad, this depressed. She's worked really hard since starting high school to be happy and make new friends.Bree used to be BBFs with overweight, depressed Lara in middle school, but constantly listening to Lara's problems got to be too much. Bree's secretly glad that Christian's pointed out Lara's flaws to the world. Lara's not nearly as great as everyone thinks.After weeks of talking online, Lara thought she knew Christian, so what's with this sudden change? And where does he get off saying horrible things on her wall? Even worse - are they true?But no one realized just how far Christian's harsh comments would push Lara. Not even Bree. As online life collides with real life, the truth starts to come together and the backlash is even more devastating than anyone could have imagined.
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An online crush who isn't what he seems pushes a fragile 15-year-old named Lara to the brink of self-destruction, and her former best friend Bree is there to document her collapse like a Facebook-posting paparazzo. But as the police investigate Lara's suicide attempt and the town becomes embroiled in the incident, Lara's tormentors become targets. Working in the same vein as she did in Want to Go Private?, Littman pens a raw, frighteningly realistic, and absorbing look at cyberbullying and the damaging effects of airing private trauma in a public forum. By telling the story from the shifting viewpoints of key characters, Littman honestly examines the conflicting ways people can view a single situation. In passages written in the voice of Lara's younger sister, Sydney, readers get an unflinching, firsthand account of Sydney's struggle to cope with feeling like her own aspirations are being ignored, while the real villain, Bree's unscrupulous mother, emerges as much more than a self-involved woman trying to live out her high school fantasies through her daughter. Ages 12 up.
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Review
I just started reading the paperback version and it’s amazing! 10/10!!
Thoughts and opinions
This book really let’s you see the dangers of social media and kids using it. However, I felt like all the things happening at the same time were overwhelming and you could tell this book was really running out of ideas. I love the thought process on this book, though. I recently finished this book and i had gotten it from my school library. It took me about a few days to finish and take a test on it, and let me say, i love reading and this book was really nice and recognized a lot of things. I love how lara stood up for sydney when she realized she was in the wrong. This book is also very relatable for some families, as sydney is always left out of her family, because Lara, has problems of her own. Also, how both of the parents (Lara and Sydney’s mom and Liam and Brees mom) care more about their political reputation then most family problems. It really shows how life is in most families, yet nobody speaks upon. Thanks for this book, nothing too negative.
Awesome
I loved this book, but it was sad. Still awesome