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Gr 9 Up—Winter Halperin has always seen herself as a "good girl": she gets high grades, stays out of trouble, and strongly identifies with her academic achievements, including winning the National Spelling Bee in seventh grade. Then she posts a thoughtless and racist comment online, thinking only a few of her friends will see it. When her post unexpectedly goes viral and becomes the subject of national news stories, Winter suddenly faces vicious online attacks. She is stripped of her National Spelling Bee title and rejected from ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this ripped-from-the-headlines novel, high school senior Winter Halperin-former National Spelling Bee champ and aspiring writer-faces internet notoriety after she posts the following online: "We learned many surprising things today. Like dehnstufe is apparently a word, and that a black kid can actually win the Spelling Bee." That she meant it as an ironic joke is lost as the post goes viral; instead of the expected few "likes" from h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More