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Overview

Be careful who you friend...

Jason has met the perfect girl. OK, so maybe he hasn't actually MET Lacey yet, but they talk online all the time. Yet despite spending most nights chatting, Lacey refuses to meet up in person. Suspicious, Jason starts googling, and his cyberstalking leads to a shocking discovery: According to multiple newspapers, Lacey died a year earlier. Soon, Jason finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing mystery. Has he found a way to iChat with the dead? Or is someone playing a dangerous trick? Either way, Jason has to discover the truth before it's too late. You can't put up away messages from beyond the grave. . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545469555
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/30/2013
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Ruth Baron is the web editor at O Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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FROM DEFRIENDED: The headline glared at him from the screen. Teen KilledBody Found After Local PartyJason blinked. On the monitor, Lacey's name blinked back at him. He rubbed his eyes. It was still there. His brain sprinted through the possible explanations: It was another Lacey Gray, it was another town called Brightonit was all just a terribly unfortunate coincidence. The problem he couldn't get around was the photo. The image he knew better than any shot of himself, better than any photo of anyone. It was Lacey's profile picture. Frozen, mid-laugh, the girl of his dreams was right there in front of him. Maybe he was hallucinating. He pinched himself. Hard. It hurt, but none of the text in front of him changed. Jason's inbox pinged. One new e-mail. The sender's name made his stomach twist with a mixture of relief and terror. Whether she was alive or dead, Lacey Gray was online.

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A ghost-story wannabe for the digital age. Jason Moreland likes alternative bands and '80s movies, so perhaps it's not surprising that the girls at his high school just aren't into him. But when he gets a message back from Lacey Gray, a random Facebook friend, he discovers the girl of his dreams online. When a casual Internet search turns up memorial pages and obituaries, Jason worries Lacey might be too cool for him--literally. Jason decides to investigate Lacey's life and death, using the messages Lacey is apparently sending from beyond the grave. Baron's near-manic mentions of social media and technology quickly become tiresome and only serve to jar the narrative flow away from the breakneck action pace. Jason has very little personality--a bland protagonist indistinguishable from the generic Everyteen semihero. Given the numerous incidents of social media hacking in the real world, it stretches credulity that Jason accepts a paranormal explanation instead of suspecting a hijack attempt. The pages are populated by unsympathetic characters who feel as shallow as the promoted posts on a newsfeed. Baron produces a novel that feels based on adult assumptions regarding teens' use of Facebook; it will likely appeal only to the disconnected adult gift-giver with no sense of teen reading taste. (Horror. 12-16)

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