Teen Book Club – “Accountable”

Join us for a discussion about our book of the month, Accountable by Dashka Slater. Registration required. Sign up to receive a copy of the book from the library. Meetings will be held in a hybrid format (both in-person and online); a link will be sent one week prior.

Summary from Goodreads:

“When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as “edgy” humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account, and pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account’s discovery: not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults―educators and parents―whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse. In the end, no one was laughing, and everyone was left wondering: What does it mean to be held accountable for harm that takes place behind a screen?”

For teens in grades 7 – 12.