Real World

In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/14/2009
ISBN: 9780307387486
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.66d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/16/2009 pg. 20

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 126298 / Real World
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10