Accountable

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account

 and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew.

Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults―educators and parents―whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse.

In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? And what does accountability even mean?

Award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author Dashka Slater has written a must-read book for our era that explores the real-world consequences of online choices.

More Awards and Accolades for Accountable:

Russell Freedman Award Winner

Northern California Book Award Winner

CALIBA's Golden Poppy Book Award Winner

An Evergreen Teen Book Award High School Nominee

A SCBWI Golden Kite Honor for Nonfiction Text for Older Readers

An Illinois Lincoln Readers' Choice Award Nominee

A Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award High School Category Nominee

A Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee

A Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award Nominee

A Vermont Green Mountain Book Award Nominee

A Texas Topaz Reading List Selection

A Texas Library Association TAYSHAS Top Ten Book

A Florida Teens Read List Selection

A Missouri Association of School Librarians Dogwood Reading List Selection

Radioactive! How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
by Winifred Conkling

Jacket Design by Studio Gearbox

Copyright 2016

ISBN 978-161620-415-0

Grades 5-9

Book Briefs Episode 04 (Podcast--audio only--by Mrs. Flores)

The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

Review by Good Reads

In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But when she was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and voted to disqualify all women from membership. Four years later, Curie’s breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of understanding that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner’s unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atom bomb, yet her achievement was left unrecognized by the Nobel committee in favor of that of her male colleague.

Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller. Photographs and sidebars illuminate and clarify the science in the book.