Accountable
Accountable
Dashka Slater
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
It all started with an Instagram account made by a guy who just wanted his friends to think he was funny, but the humor came with a high price that tore apart a community.
In this book, Slater uses interviews, articles, school board minutes, and more to weave together profiles of the adults and young adults embroiled in the controversy around one racist social media account, and the fall out they all experience.
Written with great attention to nuance, this book will leave you more mindful of what you engage with on social media.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Racism, bullying, suicide attempt, hate crimes,
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Video of Slater talking about Accountable and what we can learn from it
TikTok on YouTube (That's a thing, I guess) of a teacher reviewing Accountable
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Classroom Connections
Teach this to a Media class! It's current and relevant to students.
Dashka Slater
Dashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk.
Her children’s picture books include Escargot, Dangerously Ever After, and The Antlered Ship, a Junior Library Guild selection and a Parents Choice Recommended book that received four starred reviews and was named Best Picture Book of the year by both Amazon and the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Association. Her latest books are A Book for Escargot, a sequel to the popular picture book about a beautiful French snail, and The Book of Fatal Errors, a middle grade fantasy.
Her New York Times bestselling true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, has received numerous accolades, including the 2018 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and the 2018 Beatty Award from the California Library Association. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist, an LA Times Book Award Finalist, and the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Young Adult Book of the Year, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 18 separate lists of the year’s best books, including ones compiled by the Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and School Library Journal.
The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Slater grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts but has spent most of her adult life in Oakland, California, where she is always working on far too many writing projects.
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