TY - BOOK AU - Wang,Jen AU - Doctorow,Cory TI - In real life SN - 1489847537 U1 - 741.5973 DOC/O PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - :01, First Second KW - Fantasy games KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Internet games KW - Women fantasy gamers KW - Cartoons and comics KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Graphic novels KW - lcsh N1 - "Adapted from a story by Cory Doctorow called 'Anda's game' first published on Salon.com in 2004"--Colophon; Added title page title: IRL; Booklist starred; Kirkus Review; Publisher's Weekly; Booklist starred, September 2014; Kirkus Review, September 2014; Publisher's Weekly, August 2014; Young Adult; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - "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. 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"--Inside front cover ER -