In Real Life

Description:

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: Internet games,  Jóvenes (Mujeres),  Juegos de rol,  Spanish language materials,  Graphic novels,  Comic books, strips,  Fantasy games,  Women fantasy gamers,  Libros de caricaturas, tiras cómicas,  Novelas gráficas,  Cartoons and comics,  Juvenile literature,  Literatura juvenil,  Juvenile fiction,  Interpersonal relations,  Americans,  Mathematics,  Divorce,  Computer games,  Fiction,  Web,  Motivational & Inspirational,  Love & Romance,  COMPUTERS,  PERFORMING ARTS,  Entertainment & Performing Arts,  Television,  Internet,  Social Networking,  PSYCHOLOGY,  Online social networks,  Social aspects,  Popular Culture,  General,  FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Social Psychology,  SELF-HELP,  Comic books, strips, etc.,  Internet, fiction,  Computer games, fiction,  nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2014-11-02,  New York Times bestseller