YA Books That Explore Social Media and Online Fame

The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra

This multi-perspective communicative straight looks astatine the consequences of societal media and cyberbullying successful an elite DC prep school. The main characters Georgie, Brynn, and Cora each emergence and autumn done their precocious school’s hierarchy according to rumors (sometimes existent and sometimes false) that twist, turn, and exaggerate done streams of substance messages and societal media posts. The publication does see intersexual assault, racism, fatphobia, aforesaid harm, and disordered eating, truthful readers should cheque trigger warnings earlier picking this publication up if these are delicate topics. But I deliberation astir teens volition find this fast-paced thriller highly relatable.

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

This YA romcom starts with a Twitter warfare betwixt the teenage children of 2 edifice empires. Pepper is simply a benignant A overachiever who secretly runs the fashionable societal media accounts for her family’s burger restaurant. Jack is much of a people clown and a large antagonist of Pepper successful school. But erstwhile helium believes the burger edifice stole his household deli’s grilled food recipe, helium decides to commencement a Twitter warfare to triumph backmost his family’s grant — but successful idiosyncratic and done their online edifice avatars, the enactment betwixt hatred and emotion is thin. Soon, radical are noticing the romanticist hostility betwixt their tweets and shipping them. Will their online chemistry construe to their successful schoolhouse lives? You astir apt cognize the answer. This is an enemies to lovers, swoony romance — truthful beryllium prepared for a batch of laughs and a blessed ending.

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Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith

Divya is simply a fashionable video crippled streamer who is helping to enactment her household with sponsorships. Aaron writes video crippled scripts portion ignoring household unit to go a doctor. Both of them are profoundly connected with the fashionable crippled Reclaim the Sun. It tin consciousness much existent to them than the non-virtual world. Their avatars some extremity up connected the aforesaid distant satellite successful the game. But erstwhile online trolls statesman a doxing and harassment run against Divya, some of their relationships with Reclaim the Sun are astatine stake. And for Divya, what was erstwhile her harmless spot has present go a existent satellite menace against her beingness and carnal safety.

Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni

Ivy is simply a shy creator who begins getting a small excessively progressive successful the caller anonymous art-sharing app VEIL. The full constituent is that what radical station is expected to beryllium anonymous. But adjacent with this protection, Ivy is excessively frightened to station her ain enactment to the app. Instead, she discovers that done cautious survey and discourse clues she tin fig retired the individuality of immoderate of her favourite VEIL users. And with the information, she begins performing tiny acts of kindness to the artists. But portion she views these arsenic bully deeds, different presumption it arsenic an penetration of privacy. And erstwhile Ivy decides to enact her biggest bully deed yet for 1 of her champion friends, the full program blows up successful her face. And she ends up much unsocial than ever.

Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee

“Every blessed teenage miss is the same, portion each unhappy teenage miss is miserable successful her ain peculiar way.” This condemnation begins the modern time Anna Karenina retelling, featuring a Korean American teenage heiress and her elite NYC prep schoolhouse world. This publication has large Gossip Girl vibes, but with a batch much diverseness and a full caller satellite of societal media. When the flawless Anna K meets playboy Alexia “Count” Vronsky astatine Grand Central, rumors dispersed faster than ever astir the pair. But is this a emotion communicative (as the rubric suggests) oregon a tragedy? Only speechmaking the publication volition tell. There are a batch of imaginable triggers successful this book, mostly related to addiction, intelligence health, homophobia, dieting talk, and slut shaming.

Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi

In a near-future world, Opal is simply a talented teen coder connected a quest to observe the information astir her father’s mysterious disappearance. When WAVE, the biggest virtual world platform, hosts a contention to conscionable the billionaire laminitis (who is besides Opal’s dad’s erstwhile concern partner), Opal decides she volition bash thing to win. She compromised her morals and bends the instrumentality to beryllium a existent competitor, and achieves viral fame successful the process. Opal volition person to determine if she cares much astir maintaining her fame and attraction oregon uncovering retired the information astir her dad. The publication besides asks absorbing questions astir the existent meaning of almighty Internet platforms. Can they ever beryllium utilized for good? Or volition the harms ever outweigh the benefits?

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Eliza is simply a shy, anxious, and awkward miss who has nary friends successful her precocious school. She anonymously publishes the wildly fashionable webcomic Monstrous Sea online and has a web of online friends that consciousness person than anyone she knows successful her offline world. But these worlds collide erstwhile Wallace, 1 of the biggest fanfic authors of her comic, transfers to her precocious school. He thinks she’s a instrumentality artist, and the 2 make an instant connection. But erstwhile her concealed individuality is revealed, Eliza volition hazard losing some her net web of friends and Wallace — who she’s falling successful emotion with.

The Other Side of Lost by Jessi Kirby

When Mari’s estranged relative dies, the fashionable Instagram influencer publically quits societal media and commits to hiking the full John Muir way successful California. It’s a hiking travel she and her relative planned to bash together, earlier their falling out. And contempt having nary hiking grooming and constricted experience, Mari throws herself into this unplugged travel and finds galore friends (as good arsenic her existent IRL self) on the way.