Slater, Dashka.

Accountable : the true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives it changed / Dashka Slater. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. - xiv, 480 p. ; 22 cm.

"Content warning: This book contains descriptions of racist, sexist, antisemetic, and ableist memes, images, language, and incidents, as well as references to suicide and disordered eating"--Author's note.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-480).

Before -- The account -- Revealed -- Undiscussed -- Investigation -- Laughing -- Justice -- Seeds of distruction -- Parents -- Why can't you just get over it? -- Science -- Every day another day -- Almost out the door -- Reckoning -- Making it through.

School Library Journal starred, September 2023 Booklist starred, July 2023 Publishers Weekly, July 2023 Kirkus Review, June 2023

Tells the story of how an Albany High School handled a racist social media incident that caused lasting and devastating consequences

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.



YALSA Non Fiction, 2024

9780374314347

2022043063


Albany High School (Albany, Calif.)


Racism--California.
Education--California.
Responsibility.
Social media--Influence.
African American students--Social conditions.
Minority high school students--Social conditions.
Discrimination--California.

LC212.422.C2 / S53 2023

371.829/009794