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Want to Go Private? By Sarah Littman is a heartbreaking story about a lonely freshman named Abby. As she begins her first year in high school, she feels the distance between her family and friends growing and can only confide in her online friend BlueSkyBoi or Luke. However, “Luke” isn’t exactly who he says he is. As time progresses, he grooms Abby into befriending him and eventually manipulates her into running away with her. Once she disappears it’s up to her family and friends to decipher the puzzled mess that Abby left behind in order to safely find her. Abby learns that “Luke”, the man she thought loved her, is actually a thirty-two year old pedophile that takes advantage of her for his own twisted ways. Thankfully she is safely found and is able to return home where she eventually takes slow steps into understanding and overcoming what happened to her.
This book not only shows the harsh truths about online predators, but also the harsh reality of the danger today’s teens are in. Despite being a very bright young girl, Abby feel into BlueSkyBoi’s manipulative web. She repeatedly mentions the Internet safety assemblies she has seen at school. Littman shows us that despite those efforts, they are not getting through to teens. This book shows that something has to change so more teens understand the signs and severity of those types of situations. Every teen should read this book because it excellently displays the horrors of our world today. Every teen thinks they have some sense of invincibility. Abby did and look what happened.
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