In Real Life

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Anda is a teenage girl who loves to play Coarsegold, an online multyplayer game, in her freetime. But, things become a lot more complicated when Anda gets involved with illegal gold mining, and she realizes the things you do in the game affect people in real life too. 

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang is a graphic novel. I really love the drawings in it. It has some interesting ideas about how the game is different for certain people, and about real money vs. game money. The story switches back and forth between the game world and the real world, so you can see how Anda acts differently in Coarsegold than she does normaly.

Similar books: 

  • Nimona by ND Stevenson
  • Stargazing by Jen Wang
  • The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

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