weblogs

As a child, Danielle Lee loved looking at plants and animals. Learn how Lee's love of biology and rap and hip-hop music led her to become an urban scientist, teacher, and popular blogger.

Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.

Scarlett Epstein, known as Big Name Fan in her online community of fanfiction writers, is feeling in the dumps after her crush, Gideon, makes his way into the popular crowd at school. Turning to fanfiction for an outlet, Scarlett begins writing about her fellow students, using fiction to tell how she really feels about them. Of course, if anyone from school found out who Big Name Fan really is, there will be very real, non-fiction drama.

Having achieved fame and thousands of followers with her Tumblr expose of her brilliant-yet-clueless parents, a seventeen-year-old African American honors student tries to keep secret that her microblog is ghostwritten by a forty-one-year-old white man.

Introduces weblogs, presents information on the history of the blog, describes how to create a blog that will attract followers, and explores how bloggers form communities within the blogosphere.

Through e-mails, letters, blog entries, and movie scripts, twelve-year-old Ruth, an American girl, and Ruby, an English one, discover that they are long-lost twins.

Things are going great for Zoey on the fashion front: She meets a real designer who tells her she should enter a big sewing contest, and she finds out that her idol, Daphne Shaw, is a fan of her blog! But off the runway, Zoey's having friend trouble times two.

Explores the origins, leaders, and growth of Twitter, the online social networking and microblogging service. Includes color photographs and a glossary.

A person who understands how to communicate a story or idea through digital media has a very valuable skill in many employers' eyes. Understanding the nature of modern storytelling can make young people well equipped for a future career.

It is Spirit Week at Zoey Webber's middle school and she is having a blast coming up with themed outfits for herself and her friends Kate, Priti and Libby. Everyone is in high spirits until one girl is the victim of a Hat Day prank. When Zoey writes about the incident on her Sew Zoey blog, the post gets one nasty comment after another, and another.