'This book reminds me of A Monster Calls. I saved the final twenty pages for the next day because I didn't want Adam's story to end.There is a special place in my heart for the coming of age film, otherwise known as films that explore what it means to be a young adult. ' A brutal, beautiful book that sits right beside The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I'll Give You the Sun.' -Jennifer Longo, author of Up to This Pointe ' Imaginative writing and beautiful storytelling make this book an upbeat tale, but the message is still driven home.' - VOYA 'Despite heavy subject matter, Adam is hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived.' -The Hub, YALSA ' Walton does a brilliant job of giving a voice to a population that is often silenced.' -Booklist ' 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.

'Creates a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review

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 'Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this frank and inspiring novel.' - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewĭon'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? 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. When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.Īdam is a pretty regular teen, except he's navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell!įans 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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