This title examines the life of Katy Perry. Readers will learn about Perry's childhood, family, education, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read text that explores Perry's early interest in music and talent in singing and songwriting that led to the release of her albums. Perry's multiple Number 1 singles and charitable work are also described. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

For the past decade, Katy Perry has been a visible part of the pop music scene. However, fans may be surprised to learn that despite the themes of some of Perry's early songs, she grew up in a conservative family. This and other fun facts about Perry's life are presented to readers alongside annotated quotes from the famous singer and those who know her best. With the release of her album Witness, Perry has shifted her focus to songs that explore deeper emotions and issues. Full-color photographs and a detailed timeline give readers a glimpse at the real Katy Perry.

This title examines the life of Keith Urban. Readers will learn about Urban's childhood in New Zealand and Australia, family, education, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read text that explores Urban's early interest in music and talent in singing and songwriting that led to the release of his albums. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

This title examines the life of Blake Shelton. Readers will learn about Shelton's childhood, family, education, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text that explores Shelton's early interest in music and talent in singing and songwriting that led to the release of his albums. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

This title examines the life of Miley Cyrus. Readers will learn about Cyrus's childhood, family, education, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read text that explores Cyrus's early interest in music and talent in singing and acting that led to her breakout role on Hannah Montana and the later release of her albums. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

How can we build back truth online? Here’s how. How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information. Stebbins provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, how we can learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, how to build tools to reduce harmful practices, how platform companies can prioritize the public good, how we can repair journalism, and how to strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new, healthier digital public squares. New, experimental models that are ethically designed to build community and promote trustworthy content are having some early successes. We know that human social networks—online and off—magnify whatever they are seeded with. They are not neutral. We also know that to repair our systems we need to repair their design. We are being joined in the fight by some of the best and brightest minds of our current generation as they flee big tech companies in search of vocations that value integrity and public values. The problem of misinformation is not insurmountable. We can fix this.

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