Tell Me Everything is one of those modern fun books in which parents don't understand technology, and where kids are "technical geniuses", so to say. The book was published on February 26th, 2019 by Scholastic and will be on the Scholastic Book Fair. Scholastic is a very good book company, and a very famous one too, so if you want to get your hands on some great books, Scholastic is a way to go! But let's just get in the plot.
The story is a first person narrative of the main character Ivy. She is a sophomore at high school meaning she is in grade 10. During summer, her best friend Harold goes away to the Ivy League Camp and that causes him and Ivy to be less close to each other. Ivy, being really border during summer, discovers an app called VEIL. Short description of what the app is all about: VEIL was opened with a goal of sharing pictures and texts. It is like Instagram, but the anonymous version and the posts are from people that are 5 miles away from you. As sophomore year begins, Ivy discovers that many of her schoolmates are using VEIL. She realizes that some of them went through divorce, chemotherapy and someone needs new paint... At the same time, the anonymous person posts homophobic posts on VEIL and the school is worried. Even the creator of the app responded to this event! Ivy tries to make everyone understand that the app would never allow themselves to show who the person really was. At the same time, she tries to do something really good - she buys small presents and recreates art from VEIL. Ironically, she does it by trying to understand who the anonymous people are.
I know, this all may sound confusing, but believe me - the book is actually interesting... in my opinion, of course. I found another thing weird though. Why was there no moderation in the app? I know the app is anonymous but shouldn't there still be moderation? I am surprised that this homophobic post was the only bad thing posted on an anonymous app.