Donna Freitas
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Esperanza Flores's place on the United States Olympic figure skating team has come at the expense of an injured skater, so in addition to the pressure of sudden fame and outsized expectations Espi has to deal with the resentment of her teammates-- and their efforts to sabotage her routine.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Joey experiences her first kiss and learns that her best friend wants to quit competitive gymnastics, she considers giving up her dream of winning gold medals in order to have a normal life, even as her sister and assistant coach urge her to reach a new level.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 308 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
What this book is NOT: The fear-based How-To on sex and consent, oversimplified and focused on technicalities, that represents so much of our sexual education today. What this book IS: A journey into the Big Questions that will turn you into a thinking person about sex and consent, with the ability to wrestle towards the answers that work for YOU and continue to wrestle towards them for the rest of your life. What is the meaning and purpose of sex?...
Author
Series
The wired (Donna Freitas) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
409, 11 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Skylar's sister betrays her and opens the Body Market, everyone in the App World is for sale and Skylar resolves to stop her sister and the malevolent market.
8) Unplugged
Author
Series
The wired (Donna Freitas) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
427, 9 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the App World, Skye is a sixteen-year-old virtual girl without any glamorous downloads or fancy effects. She joined the App World for the promise of a better, virtual life, but she's looking forward to her seventeenth birthday, when she gets to unplug, see her mother and sister again, and decide which world she belongs in once and for all. Without warning, the border between worlds suddenly closes. Skye is trapped, and her only chance to unplug...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire world. Have smartphones and social media created a generation of self-obsessed egomaniacs? Absolutely not, Donna Freitas argues in this book. And, she...
