Book Overview
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. This title has common Core connections.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1596436581
ISBN13:9781596436589
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:First Second
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.4"
Age Range:12 to 18 years
Grade Range:Grade 7 to Postsecondary
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Valuable both online and IRL
Published by Alex Pine , 1 year ago
“In Real Life” is a fun, colorful graphic novel, but that content therein is immensely valuable. With topics like economics, equality, and justice, all packaged up in a realistic scenario in an online game, “In Real Life” has a lot to offer!
A comfort to know real people are out there
Published by Bayleighe , 5 years ago
The art style is brilliant, and the concept is something I had never thought of. It certainly seems to be something that is best told through the medium of comic/graphic novel. The characters are almost entirely women, which means there's women of every type. After I read it, I gave it to my sister, who responded with "Wow. Big Mood."
Technology can be rough, and this is a nice reminder that there is another, real person out there and that our actions can have very real effects. Hopefully good effects.
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