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389 pp.
| Greenwillow
| May, 2017
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TradeISBN 978-0-06-229013-7$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-0-06-229015-1
(2)
YA
Socially inept high-school senior Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of a super-popular fantasy webcomic. New kid Wallace is a fan. The two begin a tentative friendship, and soon they're more than friends. Eliza agonizes over how to confess that she's not just a fellow fan but actually the comic's creator. Interspersed with Eliza's often funny first-person narrative are chat logs, text messages, art, and snippets of Wallace's prose.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2017
428 pp.
| Greenwillow
| May, 2015
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TradeISBN 978-0-06-229011-3$17.99
(3)
YA
Paranoid schizophrenic Alex starts senior year determined not to let anyone find out about her mental illness. But the growing challenge of differentiating between hallucination and reality makes secrecy impossible. This unusual and involving novel offers no easy fixes, but as Alex experiences friendship, love, and betrayal, it leaves readers with the promise that she can live a happy life.