Blogs, Social Media, Etc. in Teen Fiction

Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O'Roark Dowell

• Pub Date: March 2011 
• Middle and High School Interest 
• See also: Music
• Janie's mom blogs their life on a small farm

Diva by Alex Flinn

• Pub Date: 2007 
• Middle and high school interest 
• See also: Mother-Daughter Relationship, Music
• Caitlin is dedicated to opera and attends a performing arts high school.

TMI by Sarah Quigley

• See also: Set in MN 

Bang by Barry Lyga

• Pub Date: 2017
• High School Interest 
• Diversity: Muslim character
• See also: Food/Cooking, Guilt 
• Two  teens start a Youtube channel that gets pretty popular.

Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

• Pub date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Portrayal of anxiety and depression
• See also: Disguises/Secret Identities, Fandoms 
• Eliza secretly maintains a very popular webcomic.

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

• Pub Date: 2017
• High School Interest
• Diversity: Chinese Australian, bisexual protagonist; Autistic protagonist with anxiety
• See also: Fandoms, Multiple Narrators 
• Three Australian teens go to a con. The two narrators are very active online with Youtube and Tumblr.

Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

• Pub Date: 2012
• High School Interest
• Vee joins an online game where she competes to do increasingly more risky dares while being broadcast online. 

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

• Pub Date: 2016
• High School Interest
• See also: Multiple Narrators 
• Lydia, one of the three main characters, writes a popular fashion blog. 

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest 
• Diversity:  Asexual protagonist
• Possible Read-Alikes: Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde, Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
• See also: Fandom, Connecting with Books, BFF Trouble
• Tash and her friends are adapting Anna Karenina into a web series that suddenly gets internet-famous. 

Endangered by Lamar Giles

• Pub Date: 2015
• High School Interest 
• Diversity: Mixed race protagonist 
• See also: Secrets, Goal Oriented Girls 
• I wrote about it: Books to Keep you Guessing 
• Lauren Daniels secretly runs a photoblog that specializes in "justice," but someone knows her secret.

This Girl is Different by J.J. Johnson

• Pub Date: 2011
• High School Interest
• See also: Fish Out of Water, Senior Year, Getting into College, Goal Oriented Girls
• Evie starts an anonymous blog to point out injustices in her high school.

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest
• See also: BFF Trouble, Medication/Therapy, Fandom
• Aza finds her love interest's secret blog.

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow

• Pub Date: 2014
• Middle and High school interest
• Anda plays an online game and learns how online life and real life interact.