In Real Life

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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.

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.

This title has common Core connections.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: First Second
Published: 10/14/2014
ISBN: 9781596436589
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.70d
Award: Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Cybils - Winner

Review Citations: 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

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