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In an age when a new generation is growing up online, Tarbox's memoir is a cautionary tale for the Internet Age.
Plume
September 2004
196 pages
ISBN: 0452286611
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-
year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and
nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an
affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-
conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her
workaholic parents couldn't give her. "Mark" seemed to
understand her; he told her she was smart and wonderful.
When they set a date to finally meet while Katie was in
Texas for a swim competition, she walked into a hotel room
and discovered who-and what-her cyber soul mate really was. In A Girl's Life Online, Tarbox, now eighteen, tells her
story-an eye-opening tale of one teenager's descent into
the seductive world of the Internet. Tarbox's harrowing
experience with her online boyfriend would affect her life
for years to come and result in her becoming the
first "unnamed minor" to test a federal law enacted to
protect kids from online sexual predators.
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