as well as the injustice of a life complicated by mental illness." - VOYA "Like Chbosky's Perks of Being a Wallflower, Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story, and Shusterman's Challenger Deep, Adam struggles with the "regular" challenges of being a teen. "First-time author Walton creates a psychologically tense story with sympathetic characters while dispelling myths about a much-feared condition." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "Despite heavy subject matter, Adam is hilarious and infinitely lovable, and the ending is hopeful and realistic rather than happily-ever-after and contrived." Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of This Is the Part Where You Laugh I saved the final twenty pages for the next day because I didn't want Adam's story to end."
" This book reminds me of A Monster Calls. Jennifer Longo, author of Up to This Pointe "A brutal, beautiful book that sits right beside The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I'll Give You the Sun." "Echoing the premise and structure of Flowers for Algernon, this frank and inspiring novel shows how a teen's life changes after he is given an experimental medication to treat symptoms of schizophrenia." But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?Īn ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults * A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year * 2018 Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Catalog Selection * 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee * A CBC's 2018 Teen Choice Book Awards Nominee 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.
Soon to be 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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