When she's not reading or baking cookies, she's indulging in her profound love of Swedish Fish, mechanical pencils, and hobbit-sized breakfasts. Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of This Is the Part Where You LaughĪbout the Author JULIA WALTON received her MFA in creative writing from Chapman University. I saved the final twenty pages for the next day because I didn't want Adam's story to end. Jennifer Longo, author of Up to This Pointe This book reminds me of A Monster Calls. VOYA A brutal, beautiful book that sits right beside The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I'll Give You the Sun. The Hub, YALSA Imaginative writing and beautiful storytelling make this book an upbeat tale, but the message is still driven home. Booklist Despite heavy subject matter, Adam is hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived. Kirkus Reviews Walton does a brilliant job of giving a voice to a population that is often silenced. Publishers Weekly, starred review A welcome novel that doesn't treat schizophrenia as an unavoidable sentence of doom and that allots friendship and romance equal weight with mental illness. Coming in 2020!Īn ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults * A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year * Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection Book of the Year * Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee * A CBC's 2 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee Creates a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition. Publishers Weekly, starred review Don't miss Just Our Luck, another stunning book by Julia Walton. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams? Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this frank and inspiring novel. When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy).Īn experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world.

Adam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart. About the Book 'Adam is a recently diagnosed schizophrenic and journals to his therapist about family, friends, and first loves as he undergoes a new drug trial for the mental illness that allows him to keep his secret for only so long'-īook Synopsis Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell! Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia.

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