Margot Mertz Takes It Down -- Carrie McCrossen

Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school.

For the right price, high school junior Margot Mertz will go to the ends of the internet to remove your nip-slip, dick pic, or embarrassing DM. At least that's what it says on her business card. Margot founded a now notorious company that helps students, teachers, even a local weatherman, discreetly clean up their digital shame. And since her parents lost her college fund, Margot is happy to work for anyone... if they can pay, she can clean.

But when a fellow student hires her to take down some leaked nudes, Margot discovers a secret revenge porn site featuring Roosevelt High girls. And hell hath no fury like Margot when she sees girls' butts shared without their consent. With the help of an unwitting ally, the popular and uncomfortably handsome Avery Green, Margot will gain access to the far flung cliques of Roosevelt High. Anything to find the mastermind (read: asshole) behind the site. But the more she digs, the deeper and darker the case becomes until Margot realizes that some jobs are so dirty, no one can come away clean. Even her. Gross.

Author: Carrie McCrossen, Ian McWethy
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Published: 11/09/2021
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.87w x 1.28d
ISBN: 9780593205259
Age Range: 14-UP

Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2021
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 10/11/2021
Booklist 11/01/2021 pg. 75
School Library Journal 01/01/2022 pg. 78

About the Author
Carrie McCrossed and Ian McWelty are a husband-and-wife comedian/writing duo. Ian McWethy is a prolific playwright, having written forty plays that are immensely popular with high schools, where his one-acts are routinely among the top ten most produced in the US. Carrie McCrossen is a regular writer/performer at UCB, a contributor to Funny or Die, and an actor on shows like Divorce and Adam Ruins Everything. This is their debut novel.