Ethel Is Hot LOL
Book Details
Author(s)
Kay Stephens
Publisher
sMashup Press
ISBN / ASIN
B00IS7ZLNS
ISBN-13
978B00IS7ZLN5
Sales Rank
#1,599,300
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Okay, maybe twelve-year-old Ethel F. Effleby likes to coordinate her outfits on an Excel spreadsheet and wear high waters with rainbow socks, but these days, being an oddball is actually cool.
Backing her all the way is her feisty, unconventional Gram, with whom she now lives ever since her mom went to prison. It’s the first time Ethel has had a chance to blossom in the Seaside School for Girls, an all-girls science and leadership middle school in Maine that encourages high-tech skills and big dreams.
For fun, Ethel and her friends delve into the virtual world of Paperdollz.com, creating custom avatars and trying on identities. Here, the talk in the chat room isn’t about boys or the latest fashion. Ethel and the gals like to talk in Scottish accents, ponder why astronauts wear space diapers, and have virtual disco parties.
Unfortunately, tech knowledge also has a dark side. When fellow sixth grader Stephönë Gallagher, a recent transplant from L.A., parodies Ethel online as a way to get more friends, things start to get ugly. Stephönë thinks she might have a shot at her own teen reality show, if she just keeps the drama going on Ethel. After her followers find out about Ethel’s mother, they start an all-out cyber attack on her, using cell phones, websites, blogs and videos, as dozens of anonymous middle school bystanders join in. Tweens will relate to Ethel’s horrible dilemma: should she keeping taking the abuse—or fight back and make it worse?
As in real life, adults are clueless until her Gram discovers what Stephönë and her friends have been up to. Their covert plan to get positive exposure for their Internet reality show derails when the local media pick up the story, then CNN. When asked to face off in a joint interview with Stephönë on national TV, Ethel confronts her greatest fear yet. To clear her name will she have to expose her humiliation to the world?
Backing her all the way is her feisty, unconventional Gram, with whom she now lives ever since her mom went to prison. It’s the first time Ethel has had a chance to blossom in the Seaside School for Girls, an all-girls science and leadership middle school in Maine that encourages high-tech skills and big dreams.
For fun, Ethel and her friends delve into the virtual world of Paperdollz.com, creating custom avatars and trying on identities. Here, the talk in the chat room isn’t about boys or the latest fashion. Ethel and the gals like to talk in Scottish accents, ponder why astronauts wear space diapers, and have virtual disco parties.
Unfortunately, tech knowledge also has a dark side. When fellow sixth grader Stephönë Gallagher, a recent transplant from L.A., parodies Ethel online as a way to get more friends, things start to get ugly. Stephönë thinks she might have a shot at her own teen reality show, if she just keeps the drama going on Ethel. After her followers find out about Ethel’s mother, they start an all-out cyber attack on her, using cell phones, websites, blogs and videos, as dozens of anonymous middle school bystanders join in. Tweens will relate to Ethel’s horrible dilemma: should she keeping taking the abuse—or fight back and make it worse?
As in real life, adults are clueless until her Gram discovers what Stephönë and her friends have been up to. Their covert plan to get positive exposure for their Internet reality show derails when the local media pick up the story, then CNN. When asked to face off in a joint interview with Stephönë on national TV, Ethel confronts her greatest fear yet. To clear her name will she have to expose her humiliation to the world?
