A Girl's Life Online

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.

In an age when a new generation is growing up online, Tarbox's memoir is a cautionary tale for the Internet Age.

Author: Katherine Tarbox
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 09/03/2004
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.66w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780452286610

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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About the Author
Katherine Tarbox is a senior editor with REALTOR(R) Magazine. Formerly, she was editorial director for Washington Life. She is the author of the international bestselling book A Girl's Life and has made hundreds of media appearances including The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and CNN.

As a seventeen-year-old high school student, she was selected to attend Bread Loaf's teen weekend for young writers. She served as a Senatorial Page in Washington, D.C., and was a frequent guest lecturer for the FBI.