Key Selling Points

• This book profiles girls who are using social media to make change for the better, while offering the opportunity to talk about the dangers of online interactions and how to practice good digital citizenship.
• Gives girls the practical tools (and inspiration) to create positive online experiences.
• Speaks to the reality of online experience for girls today. In Canada, one in four kids owns a cell phone by grade four. The average American child receives a cell phone at age 10. Half of 7th graders and 80% of teens have their own social media accounts.
• Better Connected explores themes of internet safety, feminism, diversity, intersectionality, education for girls in developing countries and community.
• Tanya Lloyd Kyi has written many books on social justice and technology topics for young readers and co-wrote this book with her teenage daughter Julia.