In Real Life
About this book
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.
Subjects
- americans
- biography & autobiography
- cartoons and comics
- comic books, strips
- comic books, strips, etc.
- computer games
- computer games, fiction
- computers
- divorce
- entertainment & performing arts
- family & relationships
- fantasy games
- fiction
- general
- graphic novels
- internet
- internet, fiction
- internet games
- interpersonal relations
- jóvenes (mujeres)
- juegos de rol
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- libros de caricaturas, tiras cómicas
- literatura juvenil
- love & romance
- mathematics
- motivational & inspirational
- new york times bestseller
- novelas gráficas
- nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2014-11-02
- online social networks
- performing arts
- popular culture
- psychology
- self-help
- social aspects
- social networking
- social psychology
- social science
- spanish language materials
- television
- web
- women fantasy gamers