Professional Literature

>I Found It On The Internet: Coming Of Age Online (2005) Francis Jacobson Harris

>Hooking Teens with the Net (2003) Linda Braun

>Teens.library: Developing internet services for young adults (2002) Linda Braun

>Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and

Community Online (2007) Meredith Farkas

>Youth, Pornography, and the Internet (2002) National Research Council, Dick Thornburgh, and Herbert Lin

General Interest

The Rough Guide to MySpace and Online Communities (2007) The Rough Guide

Generation Myspace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence (2007) Candice Kelsey

Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online (2007) Anastasia Goodstein

What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online?: How to Understand the Electronic World Your Children Live In (2007) Barbara Melton and Susan Shankle

Myspace for Moms and Dads: A Guide to Understanding the Risks and the Rewards (2007) Connie Neal

MySpace Unraveled: A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking (2006) Larry Magid

A Parent’s Guide To Myspace (2006) Laney Dale

Books for teens reflecting the importance of technology in their lives

Snail Mail No More (2000) Paula Danzinger and Ann Martin
Now that they live in different cities, thirteen-year-old Tara and Elizabeth use email to talk about everything that is occurring in their lives and to try to maintain their closeness as they face big changes.(Sequel: P.S. Longer Letter Later)

The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez (2006) Judy Goldschmidt
In a blog she sends to her best friends back in Berkeley, seventh-grader Raisin Rodriguez chronicles her successes and her more frequent humiliating failures as she attempts to make friends at her new Philadelphia school. (2 Sequels— Raisin Rodriguez and the Big Time Smooch and Will the Real Raisin Rodriguez Please Stand Up?)

The Write Stuff (2005) Jahnna Malcolm
Rachel is the "It Girl"--she has the looks and any guy she wants. Until Dylan. To get Dylan, Rachel has her best friend, Hannah, write an e-mail for her. It works. Dylan thinks he's falling for Rachel--but he's really falling for Hannah.

ttyl (2005) Lauren Myracle
Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade. (2 sequels—l8r gtr and ttfn)

Rob&Sara.com (2004) P.J. Peterson
Rob, who lives at a school for troubled teenagers, and Sara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel, meet in a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via email.

ChaseR: A Novel in Emails (2002) Michael J. Rosen
When his parents decide to move to an old house in the country, Chase uses email to his friends back in Columbus, Ohio, and to his sister in college to help him deal with cicadas, deer hunters, and other changes in his life.

An Order of Amelie, Hold The Fries ( 2004) Nina Schindler
A series of humorous and sarcastic letters, emails, scratchings on take-out containers, newspaper clippings and other inventive exchanges between two teenagers trace a romance. Each page spread is devoted to one message

Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived 7th Grade (2006) Denise Vega
Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.

Gossip Girl (2002) Cecily von Ziegesar
Is Gossip Girl one of New York City's privileged teens? The answer remains a well-kept secret, but her Web page that opens each chapter (and that readers can visit) tells all about the in-crowd. (10 sequels)