In Real Life

Description

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. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ First Second (October 14, 2014)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596436581
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 89
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 – 18 years
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ GN390L
• Grade level ‏ : ‎ 2 – 7
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.3 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.05 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches