In Real Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781596436589)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.

But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake.

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Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN-10: 1596436581
ISBN-13: 9781596436589
Publisher: First Second
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 168465 / In Real Life

Award: Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Cybils - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/25/2014
School Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 154
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 75
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014
Quill & Quire 10/01/2014 pg. 36
Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 47
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2014 pg. 150
New York Times Book Review 11/09/2014 pg. 32
Quill & Quire Books of the Yr 12/01/2014 pg. 21

About the Author

Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing and a columnist for multiple publications including the Guardian, Locus, and Publishers Weekly. He was named one of the Web's twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His award-winning novel Little Brother was a New York Times bestseller, and his recent novels include Information Doesn't Want to Be Free (McSweeney's). He lives in London with his wife and daughter. In Real Life is his first graphic novel.

Jen Wang is an cartoonist and illustrator currently living in Los Angeles. Her works have appeared in the Adventure Time comics and LA Magazine. Her graphic novel Koko Be Good was published by First Second. In Real Life is her second book.