Scarecrow Press
Pages: 260
Trim: 7¼ x 10½
978-0-8108-8120-4 • Hardback • May 2012 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
978-0-8108-8121-1 • eBook • May 2012 • $58.50 • (£45.00)
Jennifer Obee is the teen services librarian for the Standley Lake Public Library of the Jefferson County Public Library system (Colorado). She has served as the chair of the Teen Advocates Round Table, a committee of teen services librarians, and is part of a Teen Advisory Board for librarians. Obee is currently a part of the Colorado Teen Literature Conference planning committee and the Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award planning committee. She has contributed to books, articles, and bibliographies, including More Than MySpace (2009) and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Young Adult Literature (2005).
Chapter 1: This Ain’t Your Parents' Internet
Chapter 2: Stay Safe and Be Smart
Chapter 3: Stick up for Yourself: Cyberbullying
Chapter 4: If You're Friendly and You Know It: Keeping up with Friends
Chapter 5: Other Ways to Socialize With Friends Online
Chapter 6: The Mobile World
Chapter 7: How to Save the World
Chapter 8: Home-made Movies: Manage your Videos
Chapter 9: Attune to the Tunes: Managing your Music
Chapter 10: Say Cheese!: Manage your Photos
Chapter 11: Love Them, May as Well Follow Them: Celebrities
Chapter 12: Get those A's: Doing School
Chapter 13: Have Fun, Play Games, Avoid Boredom
Chapter 14: Kicking the Habit: When and How to Quit
Chapter 15: The Internet: The Final Frontier?
Suggested Reading List
Gr 7 Up–Obee provides a sweeping look at the various possible forms of online networking. The book covers a mountain of material, but does so in a cursory manner. The author takes a mellow, conversational tone that encourages teens to communicate with their parents in setting online usage expectations and in discussing safety. Chatrooms and the likely accompanying bullying are discussed with an open-minded treatment of online access for children. Obee promotes self-regulation with respect to what’s out there and provides resources for online support in the face of bullying....It is a great read for parents who are seeking to better understand their children’s online world and bring themselves up to speed.
— School Library Journal