OpEd: CindyOtis_ on how her debut novel examines the 'dangerous reach and power of social media' and its role in amplifying misinformation –– with very real consequences ⬇️
will be published by Scholastic on June 6, 2023 and is available for pre-order now.
At the start of what was supposed to be Quinn Calvet’s epic junior year, everyone at her school is talking about two kids who were kidnapped near her small town in upstate New York. Her college-obsessed older sister Ava is no exception, — Ava joins a new school club called Defend Kids, run by Quinn’s now reformed middle school-tormentor, dedicated to finding the missing kids.
online can be addictive. But when Defend Kids warns that a secret group is plotting more child kidnappings, their predictions seem to be coming true when two of Quinn’s classmates go missing one day., and claims run rampant online and, before she knows it, Quinn and her Instagram account are at the center of it all. Quinn must race to find out what happened to the missing kids amid the chaos before it can happen again. But the truth might be more terrifying and deadly than anyone knows.
Just as Quinn discovers in the book, it can be difficult and frustrating to have to comb through what is fact, rumor,
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