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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control...Tracing the very notion of addiction through history right up until the present day, Alter shows that we're only just beginning to understand the epidemic of behavioral addiction gripping society..."--
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In our digital world, social media, and web interaction are tailor-made for confusion and conflict. The time is right for a road map to getting your point across without getting on someone's nerves. In this book a team of online communication experts design a set of guidelines that improve clarity and positivity, limit conflict and make virtual meetings much more productive. No more accidentally insulting the bose in an email or creating social media...
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"From the acclaimed and respected National League of Cotillions comes advice for how to add courtesy and manners in today's electronic society. Cell phones, email, social networks, and instant connections have challenged the civility of millions. E-Etiquette provides the information you need to add both courtesy and personality to all your communications. This book will bring you up to date with digital trends. Learn the specific courtesies of cell...
Author
Series
Trapped in a video game volume 5
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Kids who love video games will love this fifth and final installment of the 5-book series about 12-year old Jesse Rigsby and the wild adventures he encounters inside different video games. Age Level: 8-12 Grade Level: 3rd and up Jesse and Eric have ten minutes to save the world. In those ten minutes, they're supposed to dive into a massive video game universe, track down an all-powerful madman, and stop his evil plan before it's too late. Sound impossible?...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don't have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves. We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table...
Author
Description
On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead--with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples through the community, Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards,...
Author
Series
Escape from a video game volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this pick-your-path adventure, you join eight strangers inside a video game for a chance to win a million dollars. The challenge is simple: survive to the end, and you're rich. There's just one problem: A traitor is hiding among your group. One-by-one, crew members of the spaceship start disappearing. Can you find the traitor before it's too late?
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.
12) The jump
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Jax, Yas, Spider, and Han are the four cornerstones of Team Jericho, the best scavenger hunting team in all of Seattle. Each has their own specialty: Jax, the puzzler; Yas, the parkourist; Spider, the hacker; and Han, the cartographer. But now with an oil refinery being built right in their backyard, each also has their own problem. Their families are at risk of losing their jobs, their communities, and their homes. So when The Order, a mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
New York Times bestseller! From Matt and Rebecca Zamolo, creators of the mega-popular YouTube series Game Master Network, comes a new thrilling novel about everyone's favorite mystery-solving team as they go toe-to-toe with the mysterious and menacing Game Master.
Rebecca Zamolo is on a mission to save her summer. Instead of going to camp like she'd planned, she's been stuck in summer school. But today is the day! She's going
...15) Fugly
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
Description
A wrenchingly honest, thought-provoking exploration of a girl judged and dismissed by society who must break the cycle of shaming that traps her in her real life and comforts her in her online one.
In real life, eighteen-year-old Beth is overweight, shy, and geeky. She's been bullied all her life, and her only refuge is food. Online, though, she's a vicious troll who targets the beautiful, vain, oversharing It Girls of the internet. When she meets...
16) The endgame
Author
Series
Escape from a video game volume 03
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"One hundred villains will enter Grim Island, but only one will be crowned the Greatest Supervillain of All Time. Will it be you? The latest battle royale video game from Bionosoft promises a crazy cast of villains, over-the-top superweapons, and non-stop action. But when you get sucked into the game, you discover that Grim Island is home to something far stranger than a few costumed baddies. Young gamers control the action in this new interactive...
17) I am Princess X
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, sixteen-year-old May is shocked to see stickers, patches, and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing around Seattle.
18) Heir Apparent
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
At first her goal was winning. Now it’s surviving . . . .“A stylish tale [that] addresses both fantasy gaming and censorship.” —TheNew York Times Book Review
The Edgar Award–winning author presents a rollicking story that puts a high-tech twist on the classic medieval fantasy-adventure . . .
Giannine has made it through the crowd of demonstrators outside
19) Into the cave
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Part of PowerKids Press' An Unofficial Minecraft Graphic Novel series. For ages 8 and up.
Author
Series
Unofficial gamer's adventure volume 2
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Steve is back and ready for more adventures! But this time the excitement lands closer to home. While walking home from the village, Steve is surprised to hear a loud BOOM! When he arrives, he finds his wheat farm destroyed and a huge crater where the wheat once grew. And his diamond sword is missing! Steve believes its the act of a griefer with a lot of TNT. Devastated, Steve wants to rebuild and find his sword, but with his wheat destroyed, he...
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