Welcome to Litsy!

Despite the warnings and media publicity regarding one's "digital footprint" in recent years, many people--especially teens--are not getting the message. In this needful guide, readers discover not only about how to survive online embarrassment but how to prevent it altogether. Each spread is dynamically designed and bursting with textual enhancements, such as girl-to-girl talks, top five best/worst lists, Keeping It Real lists, All About You activities, Quick Facts, Quick Quizzes, Talking Points, Fact Files, and real teen comments. Of indispensable utility to teens, this resource is also a wonderful tool for teachers seeking to meet Common Core Curriculum Standards for the reading of informational texts, satisfying those standards relating to determining the central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through supporting details, summarizing a text without opinions or judgments, tracing and evaluating the argument and specific claims, determining the validity of the author's reasoning and evidence, and determining an author's point of view and purpose.