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FREEFORM
12 June 2018
"Kyla Cheng doesn't expect you to like her. For the record, she doesn't need you to. On track to be valedictorian, she's president of her community club, a debate team champ, plus the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez has firmly attached himself to her hip. She and her three high-powered best friends don't just own their senior year at their exclusive Park Slope, Brooklyn high school, they practically define the hated species Popular. Kyla's even managed to make it through high school completely unscathed.

Until someone takes issue with this arrangement.

A week before college applications are due, a video of Kyla ""doing it"" with her crush-worthy English teacher is uploaded to her school's website. It instantly goes viral, but here's the thing: it's not Kyla in the video. With time running out, Kyla delves into a world of hackers, haters and creepy stalkers in an attempt to do the impossible-take something off the internet-all while dealing with the fallout from her own karmic footprint. Set in near-future Brooklyn, where privacy is a bygone luxury and every perfect profile masks damning secrets, THE TAKEDOWN is a stylish, propulsive, and provocative whodunit, asking who would you rely on if your tech turned against you?"

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Imprint:   FREEFORM
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   440g
ISBN:   9781484758403
ISBN 10:   1484758404
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 14 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Corrie Wang owns and operates the award winning untraditional Japanese food truck, Short Grain. She is passionate about libraries, road trips, and eating all the food, everywhere. Before moving to the south, she lived in Brooklyn where one of her last paying gigs was managing a three story nightclub on the Lower East Side. She and her husband, Shuai, currently live in Charleston, SC with their pup, Moose. The Takedown is Corrie's debut novel. You can find her online at www.corriewang.com

Reviews for Takedown

* An exciting, prescient story... Highly recommended for all YA collections. --School Library Journal, starred review Wang brilliantly balances the complexity of lives lived online, teenage relationships and insecurities, and the double standard of slut shaming... A thought-provoking, entertaining read. --Kirkus Snappy dialogue, a keen empathy for the pressure cooker of high school, and a wryly self-conscious narrative tone combine for a page-turner that... is extremely relevant right now. --Booklist Kyle's determination to unmask her tormentor will have readers riveted... Wang takes on stereotypes of women and girls while creating a vision of the future that will chill readers for its prescience. --Publishers Weekly


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