Charming
Charming
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Lorimer Children & Teens
Just the Series: Lorimer Real Love   

Series and Publisher: Lorimer Real Love   

Annotation: Contains Mature Material
Genre: [Love stories]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #512363
Format: Paperback
Special Formats: High Low High Low Mature Content Mature Content
Copyright Date: 2019
Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 09/04/18
Pages: 175 pages
ISBN: 1-459-41387-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-459-41387-0
Dewey: Fic
Dimensions: 19 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews

A suburban Vancouver teen wants to make her mark online.After her cover of a Rihanna song goes viral following the lackluster performance of her beauty tutorials, queer, biracial (Danish/Asian Indian) Char Gill decides that devoting herself to her guitar and vocals will help jump-start her social media presence, even if it means abandoning other pursuits like the LGBTQ+ club at school. However, her school's pack of mean girls targets Char's social media and begins to troll her. Char discovers an app, SendLove, created to combat online bullying by drowning out hateful comments in a crowd of positive ones. Using the handle "Charming," she strikes up an online relationship with the SendLove moderator, "Cinders." Connecting through video conversations before meeting face to face, their relationship quickly becomes romantic. As Char becomes more involved with SendLove and Cinders, she takes stock of her life and does a self-designed internet detox. A companion novel, Cinders, details events from Ash's (aka Cinders') point of view. Ash is a presumably white teenager living with her stepfather and stepsiblings after her mother's death. A talented coder, she invented SendLove as an entry for a badly needed college scholarship. The books address homophobia and heteronormativity, dysfunctional families, bullying—both face-to-face and cyber—and the pitfalls of social media with realism and care. The girls' sweet romance helps each of them grow in confidence and learn to take emotional risks.Engaging stories that fill a need for reluctant readers seeking positive, inspiring stories of same-sex relationships. (Romance. 12-18)

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Word Count: 25,334
Reading Level: 4.1
Interest Level: 9-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.1 / points: 4.0 / quiz: 512900 / grade: Upper Grades
Lexile: HL520L

Seventeen-year-old Char loves music, but never considered a singing career until her singing went viral online. Now instead of participating in the Gay Lesbian Alliance, Char devotes herself to seeking fame. When she is viciously bullied online she finds an app that supports victims of cyber-bullying.

Naming herself @Charming, Char gets to know the app's creator, @Cinders. @Cinders inspires Char to reconsider her obsession with online fame. When @Cinders turns out to be Ash, a girl at Char's school, Char must show Ash how much she means to her.

Charming is a modern retelling of Cinderella, where Prince Charming is a girl who learns the nature of fame and love.

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