Description
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. 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.
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.
In Real Life is a perceptive and high-stakes look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture clash.
Endorsements
From acclaimed teen author and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, For the Win) and Koko Be Good creator Jen Wang.
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