Very LeFreak
Very LeFreak has a problem: she's a crazed technology addict. Very can't get enough of her iPhone, laptop, IMs, text messages, whatever. If there's an chance the incoming message, call, text, or photo might be from her super-secret online crush, she's going to answer, no matter what. Nothing is...
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Very LeFreak has a problem: she's a crazed technology addict. Very can't get enough of her iPhone, laptop, IMs, text messages, whatever. If there's an chance the incoming message, call, text, or photo might be from her super-secret online crush, she's going to answer, no matter what. Nothing is too important: sleep, friends in mid-conversation, class, a meeting with the dean about academic probation. Soon enough, though, this obsession costs Very everything and everyone. Can she learn to block out the noise so she can finally hear her heart?From acclaimed author Rachel Cohn comes a funny, touching, and surely recognizable story about a girl and the technology habit that threatens everything.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375850967 (0375850961)
ASIN: 375850961
Publish date: January 11th 2011
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Academic,
Science,
Technology,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
College,
Glbt,
Queer,
Young Adult Contemporary
A technology-addicted Columbia freshman finds relief from her hedonistic party-girl lifestyle at ESCAPE (Emergency Services for Computer-Addicted Persons Everywhere). I've never read anything written (or co-written--the cover gives a shout-out to Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist) by Rachel Cohn, so ...
It's not a real addiction, like to heroin, but Very is a little too attached to her computer, her iPhone, her iPod, her fascinating online life that distracts her from what she should be doing: passing her classes in her first year at Columbia. During Spring semester her friends stage an interventio...